Data through September 2026, Boston Police Department
Boston neighborhoods by reported crime rate
Over the 12 months to September 2026, Charlestown, Roslindale and Brighton had the lowest reported violent crime rates of the 23 neighborhoods with enough residents for a rate: 385, 425 and 445 per 100,000 residents a year. Boston as a whole, counted the same way: 1,041. The highest were Downtown, Roxbury and West End. The table sorts by property crime, by the change from the year before, or by population.
All 23 neighborhoods
Oct 2025 to Sep 2026Sorted by violent crime rate, lowest first.
| NeighborhoodResidents | Violent per 100kvs. a year earlier | Property per 100kvs. a year earlier |
|---|---|---|
| Charlestown18,980 residents | 385−17%few cases | 1,138−2% |
| Roslindale29,678 residents | 425+1% | 711−4% |
| Brighton49,259 residents | 445+5% | 1,279−6% |
| North End10,738 residents | 456+14%few cases | 698−26%few cases |
| West Roxbury31,372 residents | 459−6% | 1,214−6% |
| Fenway37,357 residents | 460+10% | 1,247+1% |
| Allston27,221 residents | 492−13% | 937−28% |
| Mission Hill17,650 residents | 669−6% | 1,139−13% |
| East Boston42,629 residents | 680+3% | 1,454+12% |
| Beacon Hill9,278 residents | 765+15%few cases | 1,832+9% |
| Longwood4,329 residentsAbout 15 times more jobs than residents | 832+57%few cases | 1,247+38%few cases |
| Hyde Park32,074 residents | 867+8% | 1,459−6% |
| South Boston38,515 residents | 932+9% | 2,326+11% |
| Jamaica Plain40,893 residents | 941+14% | 2,017+22% |
| South Boston Waterfront5,545 residentsAbout 10 times more jobs than residents | 1,028−31%few cases | 1,082−26%few cases |
| Mattapan23,801 residents | 1,202−10% | 2,168+28% |
| Dorchester121,396 residents | 1,308−9% | 2,755−3% |
| Back Bay19,561 residentsAbout 4 times more jobs than residents | 1,365−5% | 7,857+21% |
| Chinatown5,947 residents | 1,412+15%few cases | 908−7%few cases |
| South End27,640 residents | 1,552+3% | 3,741−17% |
| West End7,657 residentsAbout 6.2 times more jobs than residents | 1,580−18% | 1,332+6%few cases |
| Roxbury53,756 residents | 1,821+10% | 2,601+2% |
| Downtown13,899 residentsAbout 13 times more jobs than residents | 3,864−2% | 6,432−17% |
Longwood, South Boston Waterfront, Back Bay, West End and Downtown have far more jobs than residents (Census jobs data, 2023). Their rates divide by residents only, so they run high: most people there on a weekday live somewhere else.
Change compares the same neighborhood’s counts in Oct 2025 to Sep 2026 with Oct 2024 to Sep 2025. With fewer than 200 incidents across the two years, a change of a quarter either way can come from chance alone; those changes are in gray, marked “few cases”, and go last when sorting by change.
How to read this table
method- Rates are crimes reported to the Boston Police Department in each neighborhood over the 12 months to September 2026, per 100,000 residents (an estimated population (2020 Census blocks, scaled to today’s city total)). They are the same figures as on each neighborhood’s own page.
- Violent crime here is homicide; assault and battery; and robbery. Property crime is burglary; theft from vehicles; theft; vehicle theft; and property damage and arson. These are the department’s own records, which count more than what it reports to the FBI, so they are not comparable with other cities’ rates on this site.
- Reported crime only. About half of violent crime and less than a third of property crime reaches the police nationally, and that share can differ between neighborhoods. A low rate is fewer reports, not a promise about any street.
- Per resident. Busy neighborhoods with many workers or visitors look higher than they are for the people passing through; the ones marked above are where that matters most.
More on what a rate can and cannot tell you: how to read US crime numbers.
Source and dates
b973d8cb-eeb2-4e7e-99da-c92938efc9c0- Source
- Boston Police Department, via Analyze Boston (dataset b973d8cb-eeb2-4e7e-99da-c92938efc9c0), aggregated by neighborhood
- Window
- October 2025 to September 2026, compared with October 2024 to September 2025
- Population
- estimated from 2020 Census blocks
- City page
- Crime in Boston, MA