Crime in Rhode Island
Major crime across Rhode Island is 44% below the U.S. rate per resident: 53% lower for persons crimes and 42% lower for property crimes. That is the 49th highest of the 50 states and DC. Expected major crimes are down 9.5% from a year earlier. Of the 17 places below, 4 are more than 5% above the statewide rate.
Larger places in Rhode Island, against the U.S. and the state
Major-crime index per resident; the U.S. rate is 100.
The 17 largest places in Rhode Island, largest first.
Every crime type in Rhode Island is near or below the U.S. rate
Every block group in Rhode Island, including towns and unincorporated areas: the index against the U.S. rate per resident, and expected crimes a year per 100,000 residents.
Persons crimes
Property crimes
Social disorder
How crime varies across Rhode Island
Share of Rhode Island residents by the major-crime index of their census block group.
- 0–5061.6%
- 50–10026.3%
- 100–2009.4%
- 200–4002.3%
- 400+0.4%
99.3% of Rhode Island residents live where agencies send detailed incident reports to the FBI. Data sources
792 block groups and 1,121,952 residents. How the estimates are made