Crime in Pawtucket, Rhode Island
Major crime in Pawtucket is 14% below the U.S. rate per resident: 22% lower for persons crimes and 12% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 2.4% from a year earlier.
Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this
Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.
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Rape / sexual assault stands out most, at 44% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Pawtucket for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Property crimes
Social disorder
How crime varies across Pawtucket
The middle half of Pawtucket residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 54 and 106; the typical (median) resident's is 74.
- 0–5019.7%
- 50–10052.6%
- 100–20023.3%
- 200–4004.5%
- 400+0.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 2.4% in a year; across Rhode Island it fell 9.5%
Change in expected crimes, with Rhode Island as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.
Pawtucket against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
300 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Pawtucket; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Pawtucket has a higher major-crime index than 6 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Central Falls (1 mi), is 33% below Pawtucket's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Pawtucket
What are the most common crimes in Pawtucket?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 330 a year), theft from vehicle (about 243 a year) and motor vehicle theft (about 137 a year). Compared with the U.S., rape / sexual assault stands out most: 44% above the U.S. rate per resident.
How we calculated this
Each police agency's crimes, as reported to the FBI, are spread across the census block groups it serves using population, jobs, points of interest and, where available, local incident records. Pawtucket's figures add up its 67 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Pawtucket's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 68.2% of residents live in block groups whose estimate has high confidence (80% interval within about 5x).
- Rates are per resident, so places where many people work or visit but few live, such as downtowns, airports and stadiums, can read high.
- Disorderly conduct and trespassing are modeled, because the FBI records them only through arrests.
- Residents: 77,753. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Pawtucket, Rhode Island." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ri/pawtucket
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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