Table 26
MASSACHUSETTS
Full-time Law Enforcement Employees
by City, 2016
City | Population |
Total law enforcement employees |
Total officers |
Total civilians |
---|---|---|---|---|
Abington | 16,201 | 27 | 25 | 2 |
Acton | 23,770 | 54 | 43 | 11 |
Acushnet | 10,466 | 21 | 19 | 2 |
Adams | 8,131 | 17 | 16 | 1 |
Agawam | 28,844 | 57 | 47 | 10 |
Andover | 35,558 | 71 | 51 | 20 |
Aquinnah | 331 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
Arlington | 45,004 | 84 | 66 | 18 |
Ashburnham | 6,206 | 16 | 11 | 5 |
Ashby | 3,242 | 9 | 5 | 4 |
Ashland | 17,689 | 29 | 25 | 4 |
Attleboro | 44,225 | 91 | 79 | 12 |
Auburn | 16,508 | 46 | 35 | 11 |
Avon | 4,505 | 15 | 11 | 4 |
Ayer | 8,078 | 26 | 18 | 8 |
Barnstable | 43,974 | 128 | 113 | 15 |
Barre | 5,491 | 9 | 8 | 1 |
Becket | 1,759 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
Bedford | 14,280 | 38 | 29 | 9 |
Belchertown | 14,985 | 22 | 18 | 4 |
Bellingham | 16,922 | 40 | 33 | 7 |
Belmont | 25,637 | 60 | 46 | 14 |
Berkley | 6,678 | 8 | 8 | 0 |
Berlin | 3,038 | 14 | 10 | 4 |
Bernardston | 2,096 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
Beverly | 41,303 | 72 | 68 | 4 |
Billerica | 42,965 | 78 | 65 | 13 |
Blackstone | 9,079 | 20 | 17 | 3 |
Bolton | 5,210 | 13 | 12 | 1 |
Boston | 673,880 | 2,678 | 2,125 | 553 |
Bourne | 19,577 | 47 | 40 | 7 |
Boxborough | 5,223 | 17 | 11 | 6 |
Boxford | 8,271 | 11 | 11 | 0 |
Boylston | 4,551 | 13 | 10 | 3 |
Braintree | 37,673 | 92 | 77 | 15 |
Brewster | 9,888 | 29 | 24 | 5 |
Brockton | 95,189 | 208 | 187 | 21 |
Brookline | 59,033 | 159 | 129 | 30 |
Buckland | 1,857 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Burlington | 26,083 | 73 | 65 | 8 |
Cambridge | 111,030 | 322 | 277 | 45 |
Canton | 22,962 | 42 | 42 | 0 |
Carlisle | 5,300 | 13 | 10 | 3 |
Carver | 11,600 | 18 | 13 | 5 |
Charlton | 13,430 | 22 | 18 | 4 |
Chatham | 6,119 | 26 | 21 | 5 |
Chelmsford | 35,251 | 64 | 52 | 12 |
Chelsea | 40,096 | 119 | 110 | 9 |
Cheshire | 3,143 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Chicopee | 56,887 | 136 | 132 | 4 |
Chilmark | 926 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
Clinton | 13,780 | 28 | 24 | 4 |
Cohasset | 8,538 | 19 | 18 | 1 |
Concord | 20,189 | 46 | 36 | 10 |
Dalton | 6,642 | 11 | 10 | 1 |
Danvers | 27,997 | 58 | 46 | 12 |
Dartmouth | 34,630 | 88 | 70 | 18 |
Dedham | 25,402 | 59 | 57 | 2 |
Deerfield | 4,994 | 10 | 9 | 1 |
Dennis | 13,905 | 52 | 45 | 7 |
Dighton | 7,430 | 13 | 12 | 1 |
Douglas | 8,741 | 19 | 15 | 4 |
Dover | 6,008 | 17 | 16 | 1 |
Dracut | 31,586 | 45 | 39 | 6 |
Dudley | 11,558 | 15 | 14 | 1 |
Dunstable | 3,471 | 9 | 8 | 1 |
East Bridgewater | 14,390 | 23 | 21 | 2 |
Eastham | 4,886 | 22 | 16 | 6 |
Easthampton | 16,026 | 33 | 27 | 6 |
East Longmeadow | 16,267 | 27 | 26 | 1 |
Easton | 23,918 | 39 | 31 | 8 |
Egremont | 1,207 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
Erving | 1,771 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
Essex | 3,675 | 10 | 9 | 1 |
Everett | 46,754 | 110 | 101 | 9 |
Fairhaven | 16,120 | 31 | 25 | 6 |
Fall River | 88,371 | 265 | 218 | 47 |
Falmouth | 31,382 | 59 | 55 | 4 |
Fitchburg | 40,391 | 94 | 78 | 16 |
Foxborough | 17,491 | 44 | 36 | 8 |
Framingham | 71,422 | 158 | 144 | 14 |
Franklin | 33,264 | 54 | 46 | 8 |
Freetown | 9,199 | 18 | 18 | 0 |
Georgetown | 8,623 | 16 | 12 | 4 |
Gloucester | 29,836 | 52 | 47 | 5 |
Goshen | 1,073 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Grafton | 18,613 | 22 | 18 | 4 |
Granby | 6,375 | 13 | 9 | 4 |
Granville | 1,628 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Great Barrington | 6,870 | 16 | 15 | 1 |
Greenfield | 17,456 | 44 | 34 | 10 |
Groton | 11,372 | 25 | 19 | 6 |
Groveland | 6,776 | 13 | 10 | 3 |
Hadley | 5,372 | 15 | 11 | 4 |
Hamilton | 8,181 | 18 | 13 | 5 |
Hampden | 5,227 | 15 | 11 | 4 |
Hanson | 10,666 | 25 | 20 | 5 |
Hardwick | 4,019 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
Harwich | 12,112 | 37 | 34 | 3 |
Hatfield | 3,302 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
Haverhill | 62,851 | 104 | 92 | 12 |
Hingham | 23,204 | 52 | 50 | 2 |
Holbrook | 11,047 | 22 | 21 | 1 |
Holland | 2,505 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Holliston | 14,656 | 27 | 22 | 5 |
Holyoke | 40,738 | 144 | 120 | 24 |
Hopedale | 5,938 | 16 | 12 | 4 |
Hopkinton | 16,960 | 32 | 23 | 9 |
Hudson | 19,931 | 45 | 33 | 12 |
Ipswich | 13,863 | 28 | 23 | 5 |
Kingston | 13,378 | 31 | 24 | 7 |
Lakeville | 11,417 | 22 | 17 | 5 |
Lancaster | 8,150 | 12 | 11 | 1 |
Lanesboro | 2,972 | 6 | 6 | 0 |
Lawrence | 80,622 | 147 | 129 | 18 |
Leicester | 11,355 | 23 | 18 | 5 |
Lenox | 4,971 | 10 | 10 | 0 |
Leominster | 41,547 | 83 | 67 | 16 |
Lexington | 33,643 | 61 | 47 | 14 |
Lincoln | 7,550 | 19 | 13 | 6 |
Littleton | 10,074 | 24 | 18 | 6 |
Longmeadow | 15,876 | 32 | 26 | 6 |
Lowell | 111,027 | 336 | 239 | 97 |
Ludlow | 21,484 | 44 | 38 | 6 |
Lunenburg | 11,438 | 14 | 14 | 0 |
Lynn | 92,443 | 200 | 181 | 19 |
Malden | 61,102 | 114 | 101 | 13 |
Mansfield | 23,681 | 48 | 35 | 13 |
Marblehead | 20,563 | 39 | 30 | 9 |
Marion | 5,098 | 16 | 16 | 0 |
Marlborough | 39,899 | 77 | 65 | 12 |
Marshfield | 25,696 | 49 | 46 | 3 |
Mashpee | 14,122 | 42 | 35 | 7 |
Mattapoisett | 6,282 | 19 | 19 | 0 |
Maynard | 10,745 | 26 | 21 | 5 |
Medford | 57,367 | 105 | 103 | 2 |
Medway | 13,289 | 28 | 22 | 6 |
Melrose | 28,070 | 47 | 47 | 0 |
Mendon | 6,033 | 17 | 12 | 5 |
Merrimac | 6,859 | 11 | 7 | 4 |
Methuen | 49,912 | 111 | 93 | 18 |
Middleboro | 24,490 | 47 | 41 | 6 |
Middleton | 9,852 | 16 | 14 | 2 |
Milford | 28,606 | 54 | 45 | 9 |
Millbury | 13,532 | 24 | 19 | 5 |
Millville | 3,228 | 6 | 5 | 1 |
Montague | 8,242 | 16 | 16 | 0 |
Nahant | 3,484 | 13 | 12 | 1 |
Nantucket | 11,036 | 51 | 34 | 17 |
Natick | 36,777 | 69 | 56 | 13 |
Needham | 30,733 | 55 | 46 | 9 |
New Bedford | 94,524 | 297 | 255 | 42 |
Newton | 89,116 | 195 | 149 | 46 |
Norfolk | 11,991 | 24 | 18 | 6 |
North Adams | 13,162 | 34 | 29 | 5 |
Northampton | 28,521 | 69 | 63 | 6 |
North Andover | 29,853 | 51 | 40 | 11 |
North Attleboro | 29,013 | 58 | 44 | 14 |
Northborough | 15,109 | 27 | 20 | 7 |
Northbridge | 16,638 | 27 | 19 | 8 |
Northfield | 2,984 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
North Reading | 15,712 | 32 | 31 | 1 |
Norton | 19,445 | 30 | 29 | 1 |
Norwell | 11,030 | 26 | 21 | 5 |
Norwood | 29,058 | 68 | 57 | 11 |
Orange | 7,615 | 13 | 12 | 1 |
Orleans | 5,810 | 27 | 22 | 5 |
Oxford | 13,895 | 28 | 22 | 6 |
Palmer | 12,171 | 26 | 19 | 7 |
Paxton | 4,874 | 19 | 17 | 2 |
Peabody | 52,501 | 111 | 92 | 19 |
Pelham | 1,332 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
Pepperell | 12,242 | 16 | 15 | 1 |
Petersham | 1,243 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Phillipston | 1,751 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Pittsfield | 43,031 | 114 | 96 | 18 |
Plainville | 9,178 | 24 | 19 | 5 |
Plymouth | 59,088 | 134 | 119 | 15 |
Plympton | 2,922 | 9 | 9 | 0 |
Princeton | 3,465 | 7 | 6 | 1 |
Provincetown | 2,959 | 25 | 19 | 6 |
Quincy | 93,437 | 238 | 210 | 28 |
Randolph | 33,807 | 61 | 59 | 2 |
Raynham | 13,818 | 35 | 27 | 8 |
Reading | 25,779 | 55 | 42 | 13 |
Rehoboth | 12,033 | 28 | 23 | 5 |
Revere | 53,514 | 107 | 98 | 9 |
Rochester | 5,522 | 12 | 12 | 0 |
Rockport | 7,222 | 20 | 16 | 4 |
Rowley | 6,343 | 16 | 12 | 4 |
Royalston | 1,271 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Salem | 42,888 | 106 | 100 | 6 |
Sandwich | 20,312 | 45 | 35 | 10 |
Saugus | 28,131 | 72 | 58 | 14 |
Scituate | 18,462 | 38 | 33 | 5 |
Seekonk | 15,159 | 39 | 37 | 2 |
Sharon | 18,200 | 34 | 31 | 3 |
Sheffield | 3,179 | 6 | 6 | 0 |
Sherborn | 4,317 | 15 | 15 | 0 |
Shrewsbury | 36,874 | 57 | 45 | 12 |
Somerset | 18,223 | 37 | 30 | 7 |
Somerville | 80,899 | 142 | 127 | 15 |
Southborough | 10,048 | 22 | 17 | 5 |
Southbridge | 16,819 | 42 | 36 | 6 |
South Hadley | 17,748 | 30 | 25 | 5 |
Southwick | 9,758 | 23 | 18 | 5 |
Spencer | 11,782 | 21 | 17 | 4 |
Springfield | 154,102 | 523 | 419 | 104 |
Sterling | 7,993 | 14 | 13 | 1 |
Stockbridge | 1,936 | 7 | 6 | 1 |
Stoneham | 22,045 | 44 | 37 | 7 |
Stoughton | 28,583 | 59 | 52 | 7 |
Stow | 7,197 | 11 | 11 | 0 |
Sturbridge | 9,520 | 25 | 19 | 6 |
Sudbury | 19,035 | 34 | 25 | 9 |
Sunderland | 3,652 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
Sutton | 9,292 | 21 | 16 | 5 |
Swampscott | 14,551 | 34 | 32 | 2 |
Swansea | 16,418 | 36 | 30 | 6 |
Taunton | 56,720 | 120 | 114 | 6 |
Templeton | 8,169 | 14 | 9 | 5 |
Tewksbury | 31,160 | 74 | 59 | 15 |
Tisbury | 4,129 | 15 | 14 | 1 |
Topsfield | 6,590 | 12 | 11 | 1 |
Townsend | 9,585 | 16 | 15 | 1 |
Truro | 1,999 | 17 | 12 | 5 |
Tyngsboro | 12,397 | 32 | 26 | 6 |
Uxbridge | 13,916 | 23 | 18 | 5 |
Wakefield | 27,080 | 46 | 45 | 1 |
Walpole | 25,187 | 53 | 40 | 13 |
Waltham | 63,613 | 170 | 143 | 27 |
Wareham | 22,422 | 59 | 47 | 12 |
Watertown | 34,655 | 71 | 67 | 4 |
Wayland | 13,760 | 32 | 23 | 9 |
Webster | 16,842 | 32 | 30 | 2 |
Wellesley | 29,049 | 45 | 39 | 6 |
Wellfleet | 2,737 | 19 | 13 | 6 |
Wenham | 5,198 | 11 | 10 | 1 |
Westborough | 18,984 | 31 | 29 | 2 |
West Brookfield | 3,778 | 6 | 5 | 1 |
Westfield | 41,700 | 88 | 81 | 7 |
Westford | 24,103 | 49 | 45 | 4 |
Westminster | 7,595 | 14 | 13 | 1 |
West Newbury | 4,582 | 13 | 8 | 5 |
Weston | 12,147 | 34 | 25 | 9 |
Westport | 15,798 | 32 | 28 | 4 |
West Springfield | 28,689 | 93 | 84 | 9 |
West Tisbury | 2,927 | 10 | 9 | 1 |
Westwood | 16,285 | 40 | 31 | 9 |
Weymouth | 56,149 | 108 | 92 | 16 |
Whitman | 14,852 | 27 | 26 | 1 |
Wilbraham | 14,684 | 28 | 27 | 1 |
Williamsburg | 2,466 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Williamstown | 7,591 | 14 | 11 | 3 |
Wilmington | 23,667 | 50 | 48 | 2 |
Winchendon | 10,727 | 19 | 14 | 5 |
Winchester | 22,523 | 46 | 38 | 8 |
Winthrop | 18,216 | 33 | 31 | 2 |
Woburn | 39,638 | 80 | 75 | 5 |
Worcester | 184,595 | 485 | 435 | 50 |
Wrentham | 11,614 | 22 | 21 | 1 |
Yarmouth | 23,299 | 73 | 61 | 12 |
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