Photo: Botteville · CC BY-SA 3.0Recorded crime per resident in Danvers rose 31% from 2023 to 2025
In a usual year, 1.3 violent crimes and 14.0 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the rest of Massachusetts, 3.0 and 10.3. Overall, Danvers grades B− for safety (#200 of 276 graded towns in Massachusetts): close to the middle of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported in 2023–2025. Next door, 5 of 6 towns with figures record less crime per resident.
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 Danvers
5 of the 6 graded towns next door report less crime
Of the 6 Massachusetts towns on Danvers’ borders, 6 have a Safety Grade: Topsfield (A), Wenham (A), Middleton (A), Beverly (B+), Peabody (B−), Salem (B−). Neighbors ↓
Among Massachusetts towns, lower
Massachusetts’ cities and towns report less crime than most states’, so Danvers’ place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 28% of the 276 Massachusetts towns we grade, against 48% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
A college town
Danvers is home to North Shore Community College, with 3,919 students taking classes on campus (federal college data), and 4% of residents are enrolled in college (Census). Students who live in town count as residents, so they are part of the per-resident rate. How to read it ↓
A job center
Danvers has 24,557 jobs based in town for 29,211 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 Danvers’ grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Violent crime holds Danvers’ grade up; property crime pulls it down. Its property rate (14.0) is below the FBI’s national estimate (17.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Danvers property | Rest of Massachusetts property | Danvers violent | Rest of Massachusetts violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 11.8 | 10.4 | 1.9 | 3.2 |
| 2023 | 11.6 | 10.9 | 1.3 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 14.8 | 10.3 | 1.4 | 3.0 |
| 2025 | 15.6 | 9.8 | 1.3 | 2.9 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
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.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Danvers | Rest of Massachusetts | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1.9 | 3.2 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 1.3 | 3.1 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 1.4 | 3.0 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 1.3 | 2.9 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Danvers’ police reported 113 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 1.3 per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.0 in the rest of Massachusetts and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Crime in Danvers per 1,000 residents
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.
And about 1 violent crime, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
484 crimes reported in 2025
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
37 violent and 447 property, as reported to the FBI by Danvers’ police.
Five people died in crashes on Danvers’s roads in 2019–2023
Danvers had 5 fatal crashes in five years, in which five people died; 1 was a pedestrian.
That is about what is typical for Massachusetts towns of 25,000–100,000 people: at their median rate (4.0 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Danvers’s size would see about 6 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Danvers’s own rate (3.6) is context, not a ranking.
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.
Danvers and its neighbors
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Massachusetts towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Danvers | B− | 1.3 | 14.0 |
| Bridgewater Town | A− | 1.2 | 2.4 |
| Wakefield | A− | 1.4 | 4.2 |
| Melrose | B+ | 1.3 | 5.1 |
| Saugus | C+ | 2.1 | 13.1 |
| West Springfield Town | D | 4.6 | 29.0 |
The five graded Massachusetts towns closest to Danvers’ population (29,211), by grade.
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
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 Danvers. 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 Danvers’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (28,648 in 2025); our figure for Danvers is 29,211 (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 Danvers
Is Danvers, MA safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Danvers reports more crime per resident than 52% of U.S. towns, a B− Safety Grade and #200 of 276 in Massachusetts. Its police reported 1.3 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 Danvers?
1.3 violent and 14.0 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Massachusetts reports 3.0 and 10.3; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
How many homicides were there in Danvers in 2025?
Danvers’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 Danvers safer than Middleton?
Middleton reports less crime per resident than Danvers: Middleton grades A for safety and Danvers B−. Middleton’s police reported 0.8 violent and 3.8 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Danvers?
Danvers’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Danvers”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
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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.