Hyannis, Barnstable Town, MA Property Crime Rates and Maps
Hyannis is a neighborhood of 13,000 residents in Barnstable Town, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in Hyannis?
Property crime in Hyannis sits near the national middle: an A, safer than the neighborhoods where 55% of Americans live. Theft makes up 54% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades A-, and vehicle theft grades A+. Barnstable Town as a whole grades A for property crime.
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Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 847 of 1,000About as much property crime as the typical US neighborhoodi What this means
55% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than Hyannis as a whole, and 45% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Hyannis scores 847.
Crime is concentrated in a small share of places, so most neighborhoods score high on the 0 to 1,000 scale. That is why a score in the 800s can still mean more property crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its property crime with the homes, parked cars and people there, on one national scale, from green for the least to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy shopping center can show red while the homes beside it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a strong connection. Compare high speed internet in Hyannis, Barnstable Town, MA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Hyannis in Barnstable Town, and anyone thinking about buying or renting a home there.
Business and enterprise customers: this free map shows neighborhood areas. CrimeGrade™ business reports map crime at about 66-meter detail and estimate it for one address and type of business. See business reports
What stands out about property crime in Hyannis
Thefts from cars happen at homes more often than nationally. In Barnstable Town as a whole, 52% of reported thefts from cars happen at homes, against 34% nationally.
Where property crime is lowest and highest in Hyannis
Every part of Hyannis where people live grades A or B for property crime on the national scale. Property crime grades across Hyannis run from A+ to B+.
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A or B 100%
Share of residents, by the property crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Is property crime going up in Barnstable Town?
Reported property crime in Barnstable Town as a whole has fallen 16% since 2019. Burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts went from about 9.6 to 8.0 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 18). Property crime changed little from 2023 to 2024.
Property crime, change since 2019
Barnstable TownUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Barnstable Town. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Property, Barnstable Town
Property, US
2016
+68%
+15%
2017
+29%
+12%
2018
+8%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
-24%
-8%
2021
-30%
-10%
2022
-15%
-6%
2023
-13%
-7%
2024
-16%
-15%
Property crime rates and types in Hyannis
CrimeGrade™ estimates Hyannis has about 27 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 15% more than the US as a whole and close to Barnstable Town as a whole.
All property crime
Burglary
Vehicle theft
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. Property crime here includes vandalism, which the FBI's property crime rate leaves out.
Theft is the most common property crime in Hyannis, about 54% of the total, followed by vandalism and burglary.
Each CrimeGrade™ here compares a property crime with what it affects: homes for burglary and arson, parked cars for vehicle theft, people and parking for theft, homes and businesses for vandalism. Rates count crimes per 1,000 residents.
Select a crime's name to see its map above. CrimeGrade™ business reports map each crime at about 66-meter detail.
Where and when property crime happens in Barnstable Town
The Barnstable Police Department polices Hyannis; these figures cover Barnstable Town as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Barnstable Town as a whole, 74% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Car thefts happen most often at homes: 45% of them, against 33% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (74%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Homes (45%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Theft from cars
Homes (52%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Vandalism
Homes (54%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Shares of the crimes reported to police, 2022 to 2024. Reports with no time recorded are left out of the times.
Property crime in Hyannis and nearby neighborhoods
Of the 10 neighborhoods closest to Hyannis, 7 have less property crime. South Duxbury and Steep Brook have the least.
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, two set Hyannis apart: it has 48.5 stores and restaurants for every 1,000 residents, against 10.5 nationally, and 4.1 parking-lot spaces per resident, against 2.0 nationally. Places with both tend to report more theft and car theft than places with only one of them, yet theft and car theft run lower here than that would suggest.
Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft and car theft.48.5 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Higher than for 98% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Lit at nightSatellite images show which neighborhoods are lit at night, a sign of busy streets and businesses. Brightly lit places tend to report more theft and vandalism.86% where people liveUS: 78%Lower than for 98% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Walk GradeBestNeighborhood's grade for getting through daily life on foot, traced along real walking routes to shops, schools and parks. Walkable places tend to report more theft.C (37 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 54% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.4.1 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher than for 97% of residents of US city neighborhoods
These traits tend to go with more or less crime; none of them causes it on its own. Sources: Census job counts and housing figures, OpenStreetMap and Overture business listings, CrimeGrade™ parking estimates, NASA night-light imagery, US Forest Service tree cover, EPA transit data and BestNeighborhood's Walk Grade.
What property crime costs Hyannis
Property crime costs Hyannis about $2.4 million a year, or $187 per resident and about $423 per household: the value of what is stolen or damaged, plus the police, courts and prisons that respond.
Cost of property crime per resident, per year
How CrimeGrade™ works
The property crime CrimeGrade™ covers burglary, theft, car theft, arson and vandalism, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most, on one scale for the whole country.
It weighs each property crime against what it affects: homes for burglary and arson, parked cars for car theft, and the people and parking around stores for theft.
The rates on this page count crimes for every 1,000 people who live here, the way police departments report them. Hyannis is a good example: many people work in, shop in or visit it, so its crime per resident looks worse than its CrimeGrade™ suggests.
Comparisons with US neighborhoods use the Census Bureau's block groups, small areas of about 1,400 residents, and count the people who live in each. The figures count crimes reported to police; many crimes, shoplifting above all, never are. Behind the grades, CrimeGrade™ tested 21,607 factors from 125 data families. For business owners, paid CrimeGrade™ location reports estimate crime at a single address for each type of business.
Where the numbers come from
Crime reports that police departments file with the FBI
State crime records and city crime data, where they are published
Published research on what crime costs victims and communities
These are estimates of reported crime for whole areas, not a record of what happened on any one street. CrimeGrade™ updates them once a year and provides them free and without guarantee. Check local sources before you rely on them for a decision.
