Hyannis is a neighborhood of 13,000 residents in Barnstable Town, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
Is Hyannis in Barnstable Town safe?
With an overall CrimeGrade™ of B+, Hyannis has moderate crime by national standards. Most US neighborhoods have less: 63% of Americans live in neighborhoods with less crime. Property crime grades better than violent crime here, A against B+. Barnstable Town as a whole grades B+. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Hyannis run from A+ to B-, so check the map below.
B+
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 757 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
37% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Hyannis as a whole, and 63% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Hyannis scores 757.
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 crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its crime with the people, homes and cars there, on one national scale, from green for the least crime 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 in Hyannis
Aggravated assault at about triple the US rate. Hyannis has 8.8 aggravated assaults a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.6 nationally.
The safest and least safe parts of Hyannis
Every part of Hyannis where people live grades A or B on the national scale. Grades across Hyannis run from A+ to B-; 16% of residents live in areas with less crime than the typical US neighborhood.
100%
A or B 100%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Is crime going up in Barnstable Town?
Reported violent crime in Barnstable Town as a whole peaked in 2022 and has fallen 12% since, back near its 2019 level. Property crime is down 16% from 2019. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 4.1 to 4.2 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 9.6 to 8.0 (US: 18). Neither changed much from 2023 to 2024.
Violent crime, change since 2019
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
Violent, Barnstable Town
Violent, US
Property, Barnstable Town
Property, US
2016
+10%
+4%
+68%
+15%
2017
+8%
+4%
+29%
+12%
2018
-9%
+0%
+8%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
-4%
+4%
-24%
-8%
2021
-2%
+6%
-30%
-10%
2022
+16%
+5%
-15%
-6%
2023
+3%
+2%
-13%
-7%
2024
+2%
-4%
-16%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Hyannis
CrimeGrade™ estimates Hyannis has about 57 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 53% more than the US as a whole and close to Barnstable Town as a whole.
Overall crime
Violent crime
Property crime
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. These figures include simple assaults and vandalism, which the FBI's violent and property crime rates leave out.
The largest share of crime reported in Hyannis is assault, about 48% of the total. It also makes up the largest share of what crime costs here.
Each CrimeGrade™ compares a crime with what it affects: people for assaults and robbery, homes for burglary, parked cars for vehicle theft. 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 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. Thefts from cars happen most often at homes: 52% of them, against 34% 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)
Aggravated assault
Homes (56%)
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.
How Hyannis compares with nearby neighborhoods
Hyannis has more crime than 7 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods. South Duxbury and Burrage have the least crime nearby.
Two things 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 and assault.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 crime costs Hyannis
Crime costs Hyannis about $1,716 a year per household, counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, 42% more than the US figure of $1,205.
Cost of crime per resident, per year
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, which comes almost entirely from violent crime, the full cost comes to about $37 million a year, or $2,810 per resident.
How CrimeGrade™ works
A CrimeGrade™ shows how much crime an area has compared with the rest of the country, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most. Every neighborhood in the US is graded on the same scale, so a B in Hyannis means the same as a B anywhere else.
CrimeGrade™ starts from the crimes people report to police and measures each kind of crime against what it affects: people for assaults, homes for burglaries, parked cars for car thefts.
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.
Schools in Hyannis, Barnstable Town, MA average a SchoolGrade of D+: 37% of students test proficient, against 38% projected for schools like them. Overall, they meet expectations. See schools in Hyannis on SchoolGrade
