Photo: Fletcher6 · CC BY-SA 3.0Andover reports less crime per resident than 78% of U.S. towns
On crimes reported to the FBI by Andover’s police in 2023–2025, it grades A− for safety: #102 of 276 graded towns in Massachusetts.
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. “Rest of MA” is every other Massachusetts city and town in the FBI’s tables; the U.S. figure is the FBI’s national estimate as published, averaged over the three years. The FBI publishes no national homicide or robbery rate in our data, so those compare with all U.S. cities and towns in its tables.
What stands out about safety in Andover
1 of the 7 graded towns next door reports less crime
Of the 7 Massachusetts towns on Andover’s borders, 7 have a Safety Grade: North Reading (A−), North Andover (A−), Dracut (B+), Methuen (B), Wilmington (B), Tewksbury (B−), Lawrence (C). Neighbors ↓
Among Massachusetts towns, closer to the middle
Massachusetts’ cities and towns report less crime than most states’, so Andover’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 63% of the 276 Massachusetts towns we grade, against 78% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
A job center
Andover has 34,345 jobs based in town for 37,014 residents (Census LEHD), so some reports involve people who work or shop there rather than residents. How to read it ↓
Reported crime is rising
Crime reported per resident rose from 2023 to 2025 by more than ordinary year-to-year swings, on the grade’s own score. Trend ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Andover’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Both violent and property crime are lower than in most U.S. towns; violent crime is the stronger of the two.
Violent crime, by year and by type
Andover’s police reported 80 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.7 per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.0 in the rest of Massachusetts and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Show as a table
| Year | Andover | Rest of Massachusetts | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1.2 | 3.2 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 0.4 | 3.1 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 0.9 | 3.0 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.9 | 2.9 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Reported crime is rising
Reported crime per resident rose from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of Massachusetts.
Show as a table
| Year | Andover property | Rest of Massachusetts property | Andover violent | Rest of Massachusetts violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5.0 | 10.5 | 1.2 | 3.2 |
| 2023 | 4.8 | 10.9 | 0.4 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 7.8 | 10.3 | 0.9 | 3.0 |
| 2025 | 5.6 | 9.8 | 0.9 | 2.9 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
For every 1,000 residents, about 6 property crimes reported
And about 1 violent crime, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Crimes reported to police in 2025 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.
240 crimes reported in 2025
32 violent and 208 property, as reported to the FBI by Andover’s police.
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
19 people died in crashes on Andover’s roads in 2019–2023
Andover had 18 fatal crashes in five years, in which 19 people died; 1 was a pedestrian. Most of these deaths (14 of 19) were on an Interstate passing through, so they say more about through-traffic than about the town’s own streets.
That is 10.4 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, above the median for Massachusetts towns of 25,000–100,000 people (4.0, 86 towns).
Deaths are counted where the crash happened, not where the people lived: a highway through town adds through-traffic deaths, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Town rates sit below state and U.S. rates because a third of fatal crashes happen outside any town. Road safety is described here and is not part of the Safety Grade. Source: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023.
Andover and its neighbors
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Andover | A− | 0.7 | 6.1 |
| Tewksbury | B− | 2.6 | 9.5 |
| Methuen | B | 1.7 | 7.4 |
| Wilmington | B | 1.7 | 8.1 |
| Dracut | B+ | 1.7 | 6.0 |
| North Andover | A− | 1.0 | 5.2 |
| Lawrence | C | 4.3 | 9.9 |
| North Reading | A− | 0.9 | 3.5 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Massachusetts towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Andover | A− | 0.7 | 6.1 |
| Chelmsford | B | 1.2 | 10.2 |
| Natick | B− | 1.9 | 11.6 |
| Watertown | C+ | 1.4 | 15.9 |
| Braintree Town | C+ | 2.8 | 13.3 |
| Holyoke | D− | 11.1 | 41.3 |
The five graded Massachusetts towns closest to Andover’s population (37,014), by grade.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- It’s reported crime. Only incidents reported to and recorded by police appear here. Many crimes are never reported to police.
- One number for all of Andover. A town-wide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of town to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Andover’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (36,920 in 2025); our figure for Andover is 37,014 (2025 Census estimate).
- Gaps are real gaps. A missing year means the department didn’t report a full year, not that nothing happened.
How the grade is calculated, for every town: How TownRatings grades safety →
Questions about safety in Andover
Is Andover, MA safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Andover reports less crime per resident than 78% of U.S. towns, an A− Safety Grade and #102 of 276 in Massachusetts. Its police reported 0.7 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.0 in the rest of Massachusetts and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Andover?
0.7 violent and 6.1 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Massachusetts reports 3.0 and 10.4; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Is crime going up or down in Andover?
Reported crime per resident rose from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings.
How many homicides were there in Andover in 2025?
Andover’s police reported 0 homicides to the FBI for 2025, 0.0 per 100,000 residents. Across U.S. cities and towns in the FBI’s tables the 2025 figure was 4.6.
Is Andover safer than Tewksbury?
Tewksbury reports more crime per resident than Andover: Tewksbury grades B− for safety and Andover A−. Tewksbury’s police reported 2.6 violent and 9.5 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Andover?
Andover’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Andover”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
Heads-up board
Neighbors looking out for each other in Andover.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Please don’t name or describe individuals. In an emergency, call 911.
Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 2025, and state and national rates. Counts are crimes reported to police, not convictions. The Safety Grade is our own summary of that data, not an official rating. Road deaths: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023. This isn’t an official statement of public safety. In an emergency, call 911.