Photo: John Phelan · CC BY 3.0Greenfield records more violent crime per head than 91% of U.S. towns
Each of the 5 towns on its borders with figures records less crime per resident. The rate the grade counts held about level from 2023 to 2025. The overall Safety Grade is C− (#267 of 276 graded towns in Massachusetts), which means more crime per resident than 84% of U.S. towns, judged on crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Police counts work out at 5.7 violent crimes and 17.5 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents annually; in the rest of Massachusetts they are 3.0 and 10.3.
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 Greenfield
5 of the 5 graded towns next door report less crime
Of the 5 Massachusetts towns on Greenfield’s borders, 5 have a Safety Grade: Bernardston (A−), Shelburne (A−), Gill (B+), Deerfield (B), Montague (C+). Neighbors ↓
Among Massachusetts towns, lower
Massachusetts’ cities and towns report less crime than most states’, so Greenfield’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 3% of the 276 Massachusetts towns we grade, against 16% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Greenfield’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 higher than in most U.S. towns; property crime is the closer of the two to typical. Its property rate (17.5) 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.
Crime in Greenfield 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 5 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Greenfield | Rest of Massachusetts | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 4.9 | 3.2 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 5.5 | 3.1 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 6.9 | 3.0 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 4.6 | 2.9 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Greenfield’s police reported 297 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 5.7 per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.0 in the rest of Massachusetts and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Reported crime is steady
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| Year | Greenfield property | Rest of Massachusetts property | Greenfield violent | Rest of Massachusetts violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 16.8 | 10.4 | 4.9 | 3.2 |
| 2023 | 16.3 | 10.9 | 5.5 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 20.0 | 10.3 | 6.9 | 3.0 |
| 2025 | 16.3 | 9.8 | 4.6 | 2.9 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident was steady from 2023 to 2025: the change is within ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of Massachusetts.
365 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.
81 violent and 284 property, as reported to the FBI by Greenfield’s police.
Seven people died in crashes on Greenfield’s roads in 2019–2023
Greenfield had 7 fatal crashes in five years, in which seven people died; 1 was a pedestrian. 1 died in crash on an Interstate.
That is about what is typical for Massachusetts towns of 5,000–25,000 people: at their median rate (5.2 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Greenfield’s size would see about 5 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Greenfield’s own rate (7.9) 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.
Greenfield and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greenfield | C− | 5.7 | 17.5 |
| Gill | B+ | 1.9 | 4.5 |
| Deerfield | B | 2.1 | 5.3 |
| Montague | C+ | 4.5 | 6.7 |
| Bernardston | A− | 0.9 | 4.0 |
| Shelburne | A− | 1.2 | 4.8 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Massachusetts towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greenfield | C− | 5.7 | 17.5 |
| Amesbury | B+ | 1.4 | 5.8 |
| Swansea | B | 1.5 | 7.8 |
| South Hadley | B | 1.7 | 7.1 |
| Auburn | C | 3.6 | 12.1 |
| Webster | C | 5.9 | 8.0 |
The five graded Massachusetts towns closest to Greenfield’s population (17,691), 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 Greenfield. 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 Greenfield’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (17,457 in 2025); our figure for Greenfield is 17,691 (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 Greenfield
Is Greenfield, MA safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Greenfield reports more crime per resident than 84% of U.S. towns, a C− Safety Grade and #267 of 276 in Massachusetts. Its police reported 5.7 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 Greenfield?
5.7 violent and 17.5 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.
Is Greenfield safer than Gill?
Gill reports less crime per resident than Greenfield: Gill grades B+ for safety and Greenfield C−. Gill’s police reported 1.9 violent and 4.5 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Greenfield?
Greenfield’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Greenfield”. 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.