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Home • Hate Crime • 2018 • Tables • Table 13 State Cuts • Massachusetts

Massachusetts

MASSACHUSETTS

Hate Crime Incidents

per Bias Motivation and Quarter

by Agency, 2018

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 200 86 69 6 5 7
Cities 179 79 63 5 5 5
Acton 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 24,038
Amherst 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 40,242
Andover 0 3 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 36,324
Arlington 4 4 1 0 0 0 4 2 3 0 45,876
Ashburnham 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 6,335
Ashland 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 17,860
Ayer 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 8,246
Barnstable 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 44,015
Belmont2 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 26,700
Boston2 89 18 39 0 0 2 25 37 43 39 694,673
Boxford 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 8,355
Braintree 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 37,345
Brockton 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 95,922
Brookline 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 59,199
Cambridge2 6 8 0 1 1 1 6 3 3 4 114,881
Chelmsford 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 35,264
Chicopee 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 55,639
Chilmark 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 923
Cohasset 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 8,665
Concord2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 19,459
Danvers 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 1 27,703
Dracut 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 31,917
Easthampton2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 16,050
Easton 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 25,225
Edgartown 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 4,357
Everett 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 47,005
Falmouth2 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 31,033
Framingham 3 3 0 0 0 0 1 3 2 0 72,510
Great Barrington 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 6,821
Groton 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 11,462
Haverhill2 6 2 1 1 0 1 3 2 2 3 64,012
Holbrook 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 11,052
Lawrence 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 80,669
Lynn 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 94,558
Malden 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 61,469
Medford 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 57,997
Melrose2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 28,552
Milford 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 29,056
Millbury 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 13,802
Monson 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 8,890
Nantucket 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 11,388
Natick 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 36,717
Newton 2 3 2 0 0 0 0 3 1 3 89,505
Northampton 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 28,587
North Andover 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 31,394
Oak Bluffs 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 4,699
Palmer 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 12,320
Pittsfield2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 42,298
Provincetown 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 2,960
Quincy 7 2 0 0 0 0 2 1 2 4 94,388
Revere 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 54,296
Salem 2 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 43,634
Somerville2 5 1 3 0 1 0 1 5 2 1 82,161
South Hadley 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 17,799
Spencer 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 11,989
Springfield 6 1 3 0 0 0 3 1 3 3 155,179
Sturbridge2 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 9,626
Swampscott2 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 15,380
Tisbury 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 4,131
Wales 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1,902
Waltham 4 2 1 0 0 0 3 1 1 2 62,655
Watertown 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 36,320
Westfield 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 41,854
West Tisbury 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2,920
Winchester 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 23,036
Winthrop 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 18,783
Worcester 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 186,188
Universities and Colleges 13 5 2 1 0 2
Assumption College 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2,913
Boston University 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 40,807
College of the Holy Cross 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 2,806
Dean College 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1,568
Massasoit Community College2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 10,613
Northeastern University2 2 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 2 27,486
Springfield Technical Community College 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 7,713
University of Massachusetts, Amherst 2 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 1 34,778
Westfield State University 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 8,017
Other Agencies 8 2 4 0 0 0
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority:
Essex County 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Norfolk County2 2 1 1 0 0 0 1 2
Suffolk County2 6 1 2 0 0 0 2 1 1 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 2017 school year, the most recent available. The enrollment figures include full-time and part-time students.
  • 2 The figures shown include one incident reported with more than one bias motivation.