Photo: Marcbela (Marc N. Belanger) · Public domainEast Greenwich records less violent crime per head than 88% of U.S. towns
Taking everything together, East Greenwich scores A− (#16 of 36 graded towns in Rhode Island): less crime per resident than 82% of U.S. towns, measured on crimes its police reported between 2023 and 2025. One of the 4 towns next door with figures records less crime per resident. On top of that, the crimes the grade counts fell 43% per resident from 2023 to 2025. Recorded violent crime ran at 0.4 per 1,000 residents a year and property crime at 6.0, against 1.5 and 10.1 in the rest of Rhode Island.
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. “Rest of RI” is every other Rhode Island 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 East Greenwich
1 of the 4 graded towns next door reports less crime
Of the 5 Rhode Island towns on East Greenwich’s borders, 4 have a Safety Grade: West Greenwich (A), North Kingstown (A−), West Warwick (B), Warwick (B). Exeter has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025. Neighbors ↓
Among Rhode Island towns, closer to the middle
Rhode Island’s cities and towns report less crime than most states’, so East Greenwich’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 56% of the 36 Rhode Island towns we grade, against 82% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
A college town
East Greenwich is home to New England Institute of Technology, with 1,751 students taking classes on campus (federal college data), and 5% 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 ↓
Reported crime is falling
Crime reported per resident fell 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 East Greenwich’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.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | East Greenwich property | Rest of Rhode Island property | East Greenwich violent | Rest of Rhode Island violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5.6 | 12.8 | 0.6 | 1.7 |
| 2023 | 7.9 | 11.0 | 0.3 | 1.6 |
| 2024 | 6.0 | 10.2 | 0.3 | 1.5 |
| 2025 | 4.2 | 9.0 | 0.5 | 1.4 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of Rhode Island.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | East Greenwich | Rest of Rhode Island | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 0.6 | 1.7 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 0.3 | 1.6 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 0.3 | 1.5 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.5 | 1.4 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
East Greenwich’s police reported 18 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.4 per 1,000 residents a year, against 1.5 in the rest of Rhode Island and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Crime in East Greenwich 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.
70 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.
8 violent and 62 property, as reported to the FBI by East Greenwich’s police.
Five people died in crashes on East Greenwich’s roads in 2019–2023
East Greenwich had 5 fatal crashes in five years, in which five people died.
That is about what is typical for Rhode Island towns of 5,000–25,000 people: at their median rate (4.8 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of East Greenwich’s size would see about 3 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so East Greenwich’s own rate (6.9) 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.
East Greenwich and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Greenwich | A− | 0.4 | 6.0 |
| North Kingstown | A− | 0.6 | 6.4 |
| Warwick | B | 0.8 | 10.9 |
| West Greenwich | A | 0.3 | 3.9 |
| Exeter | — | — | — |
| West Warwick | B | 1.9 | 6.0 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Exeter has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025.
Rhode Island towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Greenwich | A− | 0.4 | 6.0 |
| Burrillville | A | 0.5 | 2.3 |
| Narragansett | A | 0.6 | 3.9 |
| Tiverton | A− | 0.9 | 6.4 |
| Middletown | B+ | 1.0 | 7.1 |
| North Smithfield | B | 0.6 | 11.5 |
The five graded Rhode Island towns closest to East Greenwich’s population (14,790), 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 East Greenwich. 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 East Greenwich’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (14,863 in 2025); our figure for East Greenwich is 14,790 (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 East Greenwich
Is East Greenwich, RI safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, East Greenwich reports less crime per resident than 82% of U.S. towns, an A− Safety Grade and #16 of 36 in Rhode Island. Its police reported 0.4 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 1.5 in the rest of Rhode Island and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in East Greenwich?
0.4 violent and 6.0 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Rhode Island reports 1.5 and 10.1; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Is East Greenwich safer than North Kingstown?
North Kingstown reports more crime per resident than East Greenwich: North Kingstown grades A− for safety and East Greenwich A−. North Kingstown’s police reported 0.6 violent and 6.4 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices East Greenwich?
East Greenwich’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “East Greenwich”. 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.