Massachusetts, United States44,206 residents2025 data

Is Leominster safe?

Leominster is about average for places of its size. It ranks safer than 42% of US cities with 25,000+ residents on reported crime per person, based on FBI Crime Data Explorer figures for 2025.

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MkaeSense Safety IndexOut of 100. Higher is safer. Ranked 739 of 1274 US cities with 25,000+ residents, where 1 is safest.

How Leominster compares

Every dot is one of the 1274 US cities with 25,000+ residents. Further right means more violent crimes per person.

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Leominster's violent crime rate of 4.9 per 1,000 residents is higher than 80% of US cities with 25,000+ residents. The Massachusetts average is 3.0 and the US average is 3.3.

Month by month

Reported offences each month, per 1,000 residents, compared with Massachusetts and the national rate.

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When and how often cases are solved

Break-in clock

Average share of each year's break-ins by month.

Cases cleared in 2025

Share of reported offences police marked as cleared, usually by an arrest or charge.

Break-ins22%
Theft6%
Violent crime51%

Nearby places

Safety Index for the closest places we cover. Higher is safer.

Protect your home in Leominster

Picked for Leominster's biggest gap against the US average: violent crimes.

Common questions

Is Leominster a safe place to live?

Leominster is about average for places of its size. Its MkaeSense Safety Index is 42 out of 100, which means it ranks safer than 42% of US cities with 25,000+ residents on reported crime per person. Safety also varies a lot between neighbourhoods, so check the area you're looking at.

How common are break-ins in Leominster?

Police recorded 50 break-ins in 2025, or 1.1 per 1,000 residents. The US rate was 2.0 per 1,000.

Is car theft a problem in Leominster?

There were 48 vehicle thefts in 2025, 1.1 per 1,000 residents, against 2.0 per 1,000 nationally. That is higher than 40% of US cities with 25,000+ residents.

How is the Safety Index calculated?

We rank each place against others in the same country by its rate per person of violent crime (half the weight) and of property crime: break-ins, car theft and theft (the other half). The index is the share of places with a higher combined score. Where a police service did not report car thefts, its property crime is ranked on break-ins and theft only. It uses police-reported crime only, which depends on how often residents report. Full method, sources and a worked example.

Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer, offences reported by the Leominster Police Department, January 2022 to June 2026. Theft means larceny-theft. Clearance figures are offences cleared in the same period. Rates per 1,000 residents and the Safety Index are MkaeSense calculations. Police-reported crime does not include crimes that were never reported. MkaeSense is not affiliated with any police service.

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Data year 2025. Updated October 2026.

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MkaeSense. (2026). Is Leominster safe? Safety Index and crime rates, 2025 data [Data set]. https://mkaesense.com/pages/city/leominster-ma