What is the crime rate in Wareham, MA?

In 2025, the Wareham Police Department reported 83 violent crimes and 333 property crimes to the FBI.

That is 353 violent and 1,416 property crimes per 100,000 of the 23,525 residents it serves.

Across Massachusetts the rates were 301 and 1,037.

Nationally they were 330 and 1,552.

Figures last updated on November 12, 2026.

Violent per 100,000: 353
Property per 100,000: 1,416
Violent crimes: 83
Property crimes: 333

Crime reported by the Wareham Police Department, 2023 to 2025

Offenses known to law enforcement, reported to the FBI; rates per 100,000 residents of the area the department serves
Year	Violent crimes	Violent per 100,000	Property crimes	Property per 100,000	Residents served
2023	72	311	272	1,174	23,178
2024	70	296	258	1,093	23,609
2025	83	353	333	1,416	23,525

Violent crimes reported went from 72 in 2023 to 83 in 2025.

Property crimes reported went from 272 in 2023 to 333 in 2025.

In a small town a handful of incidents moves these numbers a long way, so one year’s change says little on its own.

Wareham against Massachusetts and the nation

Crimes per 100,000 residents, 2025
	Violent crime	Property crime
Wareham	353	1,416
Plymouth County	250	711
Massachusetts	301	1,037
United States	330	1,552

These are rates per resident; they are not adjusted for visitors, commuters or the size of the area, which raise or lower a town’s figures without changing anybody’s risk.

Crime reported in places near Wareham, 2025

Each place’s own police department; rates per 100,000 residents served
Place	Distance	Violent per 100,000	Property per 100,000
Wareham	—	353	1,416
Marion	4.5 mi	206	845
Bourne	6.4 mi	261	851
Rochester	7.1 mi	218	134
Carver	8.2 mi	161	406
Mattapoisett	8.9 mi	176	382
Plymouth	10 mi	325	666
Acushnet	11 mi	224	308
Sandwich	12 mi	146	263

Neighboring departments count the same offenses the same way, but their areas, populations and visitors differ, so a difference between two towns is a starting point for a question, not an answer.

How to read these numbers

These are offenses known to the police and reported to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program: crimes nobody reported, or that a department did not record, are not in them.

Violent crime is murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, rape, robbery and aggravated assault; property crime is burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft and arson.

A department reports the crimes in the area it polices, which can differ from the town’s boundaries, and the FBI estimates the population it serves.

The FBI asks that these figures not be used to rank places or to judge how safe a neighborhood is: crime depends on many local factors, and the counts describe a whole town, not any street or home.

A year is shown only when the department reported all twelve months.

FBI: Uniform Crime Reporting statistics and their proper use

The figures for Wareham include the places inside it that have pages of their own: Onset, Wareham Center, West Wareham, Weweantic, White Island Shores.

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