What is the crime rate in Wilmington, MA?

In 2025, the Wilmington Police Department reported 32 violent crimes and 138 property crimes to the FBI.

That is 134 violent and 578 property crimes per 100,000 of the 23,869 residents it serves.

Across Massachusetts the rates were 301 and 1,037.

Nationally they were 330 and 1,552.

Figures last updated on .

Violent per 100,000
134
Property per 100,000
578
Violent crimes
32
Property crimes
138

Crime reported by the Wilmington 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
YearViolent crimesViolent per 100,000Property crimesProperty per 100,000Residents served
20235021919686022,797
2024381612371,00723,535
20253213413857823,869

Violent crimes reported went from 50 in 2023 to 32 in 2025.

Property crimes reported went from 196 in 2023 to 138 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.

Wilmington against Massachusetts and the nation

Crimes per 100,000 residents, 2025
Violent crimeProperty crime
Wilmington134578
Middlesex County196913
Massachusetts3011,037
United States3301,552

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 Wilmington, 2025

Each place’s own police department; rates per 100,000 residents served
PlaceDistanceViolent per 100,000Property per 100,000
Wilmington—134578
Reading3.6 mi31533
North Reading4.2 mi91308
Tewksbury4.6 mi279775
Burlington4.6 mi1841,528
Billerica4.9 mi100269
Woburn5.3 mi123904
Andover5.8 mi87563
Wakefield6.6 mi138333

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.

The figures for Wilmington include the places inside it that have pages of their own: Wilmington (community).

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Questions about Wilmington

What is the crime rate in Wilmington?

In 2025, the Wilmington Police Department reported 134 violent crimes and 578 property crimes per 100,000 residents to the FBI.

How many crimes were reported in Wilmington in 2025?

In 2025, the Wilmington Police Department reported 32 violent crimes and 138 property crimes to the FBI.

Has crime gone up or down in Wilmington?

Violent crimes reported went from 50 in 2023 to 32 in 2025.

Property crimes reported went from 196 in 2023 to 138 in 2025.

Where do these crime figures come from?

From the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program: each police department reports the offenses known to it every month, and the FBI publishes them in its Crime Data Explorer.

Sources

Figures are published by the US Census Bureau, HUD, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the FBI; Seayora reproduces them and does not adjust them, except where a sentence says it compares dollar figures after inflation. They describe the whole place, not any one building or street, and are not an appraisal, a rent determination, a tax bill, a safety rating or legal advice.

Figures last updated on .

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