What is the crime rate in South Kingstown, RI?

In 2025, the South Kingstown Police Department reported 12 violent crimes and 120 property crimes to the FBI.

That is 37 violent and 374 property crimes per 100,000 of the 32,084 residents it serves.

Across Rhode Island the rates were 146 and 922.

Nationally they were 330 and 1,552.

Figures last updated on November 12, 2026.

Violent per 100,000: 37
Property per 100,000: 374
Violent crimes: 12
Property crimes: 120

Crime reported by the South Kingstown 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	14	43	143	444	32,225
2024	18	55	118	363	32,540
2025	12	37	120	374	32,084

Violent crimes reported went from 14 in 2023 to 12 in 2025.

Property crimes reported went from 143 in 2023 to 120 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.

South Kingstown against Rhode Island and the nation

Crimes per 100,000 residents, 2025
	Violent crime	Property crime
South Kingstown	37	374
Washington County	40	438
Rhode Island	146	922
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 South Kingstown, 2025

Each place’s own police department; rates per 100,000 residents served
Place	Distance	Violent per 100,000	Property per 100,000
South Kingstown	—	37	374
Narragansett	3.3 mi	14	376
Charlestown	7.4 mi	99	286
Richmond	8.6 mi	12	258
Jamestown	12 mi	0	238
Hopkinton	12 mi	59	190
North Kingstown	12 mi	54	583
Newport	13 mi	194	1,330
Westerly	15 mi	26	598

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 South Kingstown include the places inside it that have pages of their own: Kingston, Wakefield-Peace Dale.

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