City overview

Boston

25 neighborhoods covered by the Boston police open-data feed. Browse a specific area below or jump into the live app.

Citywide Safety Index

C

Boston (citywide) reports close to the FBI national rate.

persons: 384/100k vs FBI 379.5/100k (+1%)property: 1849/100k vs FBI 1934.1/100k (-4%)

Source: FBI UCR national rate per 100k (2023 revised, per CIUS 2024) · newest report Apr 21, 2026

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Neighborhoods

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How to read this: CommunitySafe summarizes publicly published police reports. Scores reflect historical reporting only — not predictions of future risk, and not a substitute for professional safety advice. These scores should not be used as the sole basis for housing, lending, insurance, or hiring decisions — verify each statistic with the cited official source before acting on it. See /methodology for how the index is computed.

About Boston safety data

This overview aggregates Boston's official police open-data feed across 25 neighborhoods and compares it to the FBI Crime Data Explorer 2023 national rate per 100,000 residents. Boston currently carries a citywide Safety Index of C. Boston (citywide) reports close to the FBI national rate.

Use the neighborhood list above to drill into a specific area — every area has its own running incident timeline and category breakdown. Safety is local: a citywide grade smooths over real differences between neighborhoods, so we always recommend reading the area you actually care about rather than the headline number. For the full data sourcing, population normalization, and grade thresholds, see our methodology. To compare Boston against another metro, use the comparison tool above.