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Home • Hate Crime • 2017 • Tables • Table 13 State Cuts • Massachusetts

Table 13

MASSACHUSETTS

Hate Crime Incidents

per Bias Motivation and Quarter

by Agency, 2017

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 232 118 65 9 8 9
Cities 185 110 60 9 8 9
Acton 5 2 1 0 0 0 1 1 4 2 23,937
Agawam 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 28,839
Amherst2 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 1 1 40,313
Andover 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 35,898
Arlington 2 7 1 1 0 3 6 7 1 0 45,449
Ashburnham 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 6,255
Attleboro 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 44,607
Barnstable 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 44,142
Belmont 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 26,432
Beverly 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 41,678
Bolton 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 5,272
Boston2 79 28 33 0 0 1 29 42 36 33 682,903
Boxford 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 8,333
Braintree 4 1 0 0 0 2 3 3 0 1 37,579
Bridgewater 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 27,769
Brockton 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 96,016
Cambridge2 5 3 2 0 0 0 3 3 1 2 111,707
Chelmsford 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 35,392
Chelsea2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 40,514
Concord 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 20,193
Danvers 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 28,168
Dracut 0 4 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 3 31,685
Duxbury 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 16,085
Edgartown 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4,323
Everett 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 47,185
Fitchburg 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 40,445
Framingham 1 3 1 0 0 0 3 1 1 0 72,153
Grafton 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 18,763
Greenfield 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 17,462
Haverhill 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 63,244
Hingham 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 23,392
Holland 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 2,502
Hudson 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 19,963
Lexington 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 33,768
Lincoln 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 6,860
Lowell 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 111,294
Lynn2 5 0 2 0 0 0 4 0 1 1 93,140
Malden2 3 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 61,098
Manchester-by-the-Sea 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 5,435
Mansfield 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 23,847
Marblehead 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 20,618
Mashpee 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 14,272
Medford 5 1 0 1 0 0 2 3 0 2 57,418
Medway 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 13,407
Millbury 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 13,626
Milton 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 27,420
Nahant 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3,500
Natick 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 36,705
New Bedford 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 95,107
Newburyport 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 18,092
Newton 3 7 2 0 0 0 5 4 1 2 89,736
North Andover 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 31,035
Northbridge 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 16,711
Northfield 0 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 2,966
Norwell 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 11,150
Pittsfield 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 42,546
Plymouth 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 59,803
Provincetown 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2,993
Quincy2 8 2 1 0 0 0 2 1 4 3 93,966
Raynham 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 14,048
Reading 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 26,033
Revere 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 53,425
Rutland 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 8,687
Salem2 8 5 0 0 0 0 1 5 1 4 43,385
Salisbury 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 9,517
Saugus 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 28,241
Sharon 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 18,419
Shrewsbury 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 36,974
Somerville2 6 2 1 1 0 0 3 3 1 2 82,326
Southbridge 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 16,860
Springfield 5 1 1 0 0 1 4 2 1 1 154,562
Stoneham 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 22,077
Stoughton 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 28,678
Sudbury 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 19,120
Swampscott 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 15,016
Taunton 1 1 0 1 2 0 4 1 0 0 57,047
Tewksbury 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 31,245
Truro 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2,018
Walpole 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 25,312
Waltham 1 1 1 1 2 0 0 3 1 2 63,413
Ware 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 9,907
Watertown 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 35,586
Webster 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 16,883
Westborough 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 19,074
Worcester2 5 1 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 1 185,107
Wrentham 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 11,838
Universities and Colleges 37 8 4 0 0 0
Amherst College 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 1,849
Boston College 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 14,466
Boston University2 5 3 1 0 0 0 3 2 2 1 32,695
Clark University 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 3,298
College of the Holy Cross 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2,720
Dean College 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1,339
Framingham State University 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 5,977
Hampshire College 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1,321
Harvard University 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 29,908
Massasoit Community College 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 7,471
Springfield Technical Community College 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 5,622
University of Massachusetts, Amherst 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 30,037
Westfield State University2 10 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 9 6,335
Other Agencies 10 0 1 0 0 0
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority:
Middlesex County 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
Suffolk County 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2
Massachusetts General Hospital 5 0 1 0 0 0 2 4
  • 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 2016 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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