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Table 13

MASSACHUSETTS

Hate Crime Incidents

per Bias Motivation and Quarter

by Agency, 2015

Agency Type Agency name Number of incidents per bias motivation Number of incidents per quarter Population1
Race/
Ethnicity/
Ancestry 		Religion Sexual
orientation 		Disability Gender Gender
Identity 		1st
quarter 		2nd
quarter 		3rd
quarter 		4th
quarter
Total 198 81 81 4 15 45
Cities 184 69 77 4 15 45
Acton2 2 6 0 0 0 1 4 2 2 1 23,573
Agawam 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 28,853
Amesbury 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 16,922
Andover 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 35,562
Arlington 1 2 0 0 1 1 0 2 0 3 44,873
Attleboro 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 44,079
Barnstable 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 44,392
Bedford 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 14,435
Bellingham 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 16,879
Belmont 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 25,692
Beverly 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 41,281
Billerica 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 42,762
Boston2 81 14 46 0 1 6 28 40 40 31 665,258
Braintree 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 37,772
Brockton 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 95,049
Cambridge 10 7 2 0 0 0 3 7 4 5 110,953
Chicopee 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 55,926
Cohasset 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 8,550
Danvers2 2 2 1 0 1 0 0 3 1 1 27,708
Dracut 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 31,486
Easthampton 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 16,033
Everett 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 44,898
Falmouth 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 31,666
Granby 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 6,357
Haverhill 2 0 0 0 0 3 0 2 2 1 62,895
Hingham 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 23,165
Lowell 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 110,819
Ludlow 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 21,510
Lynn 7 2 1 1 1 7 1 7 9 2 92,584
Malden 1 1 1 0 0 5 2 1 3 2 61,211
Mansfield 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 23,705
Marblehead 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 20,616
Medford 5 1 1 0 2 0 1 3 4 1 57,742
Mendon 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5,991
Methuen 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 49,579
Middleboro2 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 24,357
Milford 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 28,553
Milton 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 27,449
Montague 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 8,300
Nahant 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3,496
Natick 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 36,184
Newton2 4 3 1 0 1 2 1 4 3 3 89,053
Northampton2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 28,534
North Attleboro 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 28,965
Northbridge 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 16,587
Northfield 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3,008
Norton 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 19,464
Palmer 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 12,183
Plymouth 3 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 58,705
Provincetown2 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 2,989
Quincy2 16 4 1 0 0 2 5 3 8 5 93,671
Randolph 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 33,947
Raynham 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 13,772
Reading 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 25,705
Rockport 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 7,229
Salem 3 1 3 0 0 0 3 1 2 1 43,090
Salisbury 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 8,813
Sherborn 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 4,320
Somerville2 3 0 1 0 1 1 2 0 2 2 79,734
Southborough 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 9,989
South Hadley 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 17,684
Springfield 4 0 3 0 0 0 1 2 2 2 154,090
Stoneham 3 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 2 22,041
Stoughton 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 28,748
Sutton 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 9,264
Swampscott 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 1 0 14,071
Taunton 0 0 1 0 3 10 6 2 5 1 56,731
Tisbury 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4,173
Wakefield 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 27,206
Waltham 0 0 1 1 0 3 0 0 2 3 63,590
Wareham 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 22,640
Watertown 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 34,701
Woburn 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 39,539
Worcester 3 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 183,377
Universities and Colleges 13 10 4 0 0 0
Bentley University 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 5,565
Boston University 3 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 2 1 32,112
Bristol Community College 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 9,189
Clark University 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 3,423
Emerson College 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 4,545
Endicott College 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4,429
Framingham State University 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 6,499
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 3 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 11,319
Northeastern University 4 4 3 0 0 0 4 0 1 6 19,798
Springfield Technical Community College 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 6,622
Other Agencies 1 2 0 0 0 0
Massachusetts General Hospital 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1
  • 1 Population figures are published only for the cities. The figures listed for the universities and colleges are student enrollment and were provided by the United States Department of Education for the 2014 school year, the most recent available. The enrollment figures include full-time and part-time students.
  • 2 Includes one incident reported with more than one bias motivation.

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