The Safest and Most Dangerous Places in Revere, MA
Revere is a city of 59,600 in Suffolk County, about 5 miles northeast of downtown Boston · Updated November 2026
Is Revere, MA safe?
With an overall CrimeGrade™ of B+, Revere has moderate crime by national standards. Most US neighborhoods have less: 66% of Americans live in neighborhoods with less crime. Violent crime grades A- and property crime B. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Revere run from A to D+, so check the map below.
B+
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 733 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
34% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Revere as a whole, and 66% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Revere scores 733.
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 Revere, MA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Revere, 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 Revere
One weak spot: aggravated assault. It grades C+ in Revere, worse than in the neighborhoods where 85% of Americans live, against A- for violent crime as a whole.
The safest and least safe parts of Revere
Most of Revere grades well: 92% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and 5% in areas graded D or F. Grades across Revere run from A to D+; 9% of residents live in areas with less crime than the typical US neighborhood.
92%
A or B 92%C 3%D or F 5%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Within Revere, the northeast side has the least crime and the southeast side the most.
Is crime going up in Revere?
Reported crime in Revere has risen since 2019: violent crime is up 28% and property crime up 18%. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 3.3 to 4.2 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 12 to 15 (US: 18). Neither changed much from 2023 to 2024.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
RevereUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police department that serves Revere. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Revere
Violent, US
Property, Revere
Property, US
2016
+46%
+4%
+72%
+15%
2017
+38%
+4%
+55%
+12%
2018
+45%
+0%
+34%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
-4%
+4%
-9%
-8%
2021
-19%
+6%
-14%
-10%
2022
-1%
+5%
-4%
-6%
2023
+18%
+2%
+14%
-7%
2024
+28%
-4%
+18%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Revere
CrimeGrade™ estimates Revere has about 32 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 14% less than the US as a whole and 19% more than Massachusetts.
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.
Theft is the most common crime in Revere, about 38% of everything reported, but assault costs more, because each one does more harm.
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 Revere
Revere has its own police department, and these figures come from its reports, 2022 to 2024.
In Revere, 53% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often at homes: 44% of them, against 34% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (53%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Homes (39%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Theft from cars
Homes (44%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Vandalism
Homes (45%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Robbery
Other places (38%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (51%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Shares of the crimes reported to police, 2022 to 2024. Reports with no time recorded are left out of the times.
How Revere compares with nearby cities
Revere has more crime than 7 of its 10 nearest cities. Melrose and Nahant have the least crime nearby.
Two things set Revere apart: it has 89% of its residents in dense blocks, against 24% nationally, and 19 buses and trains an hour at the evening rush, where most Americans have none nearby. Places like that tend to report more robbery and car theft, and they run high here.
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery and car theft.89% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 95% of US city residents
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.100% where people liveUS: 78%Higher than for 92% of US city residents
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+ (43 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 89% of US city residents
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Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more theft and robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Revere: C- (32 of 100).19 trips an hourUS: noneHigher than for 91% of US city residents
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft and robbery.17 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Lower than for 90% of US city residents
Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.0.5 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Lower than for 90% of US city residents
BestNeighborhood, a sister site of CrimeGrade™, ranks the neighborhoods of Revere on shops, parks, home prices, getting around and more.
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 Revere
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Revere about $876 a year per household, 27% less 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 $59 million a year, or $993 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$830,000
$14
Rape
$900,000
$15
Robbery
$520,000
$9
Assault
$9.9 million
$165
Burglary
$770,000
$13
Theft
$3.7 million
$62
Vehicle theft
$1.5 million
$24
Arson
$68,000
$1
Vandalism
$1.9 million
$33
Total
$20 million
$336
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 Revere 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. Revere is the other kind of example: few people work in, shop in or visit it, so its crime per resident looks lower 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 Revere, MA average a SchoolGrade of D-: 25% of students test proficient, against 25% projected for schools like them. Overall, they exceed expectations. See schools in Revere on SchoolGrade
