Hyannis, Barnstable Town, MA Violent Crime Rates and Maps
Hyannis is a neighborhood of 13,000 residents in Barnstable Town, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is violent crime in Hyannis?
Violent crime is high in Hyannis: a B+, with more violent crime than the neighborhoods where 74% of Americans live. Assaults make up 93% of it, and most of those are simple assaults, which involve no weapon and no serious injury. Barnstable Town as a whole grades B+ for violent crime.
B+
Violent crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 703 of 1,000More violent crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
26% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more violent crime than Hyannis as a whole, and 74% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a violent crime safety score of 860, a CrimeGrade™ of A. Hyannis scores 703.
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 violent crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its violent crime with the people who spend time there, on one national scale, from green for the least to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy downtown or nightlife strip can show red while the homes around it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a solid 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 violent crime in Hyannis
Aggravated assaults run high. Hyannis has aggravated assaults at about triple the US rate: 8.8 a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.6 nationally.
Where violent crime is lowest and highest in Hyannis
Low violent crime is the norm across Hyannis: 91% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and the rest in areas graded C. Violent crime grades across Hyannis run from A+ to C+.
91%
A or B 91%C 9%
Share of residents, by the violent crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Is violent 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. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 4.1 to 4.2 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7). Violent crime changed little from 2023 to 2024.
Violent 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
2016
+10%
+4%
2017
+8%
+4%
2018
-9%
+0%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
-4%
+4%
2021
-2%
+6%
2022
+16%
+5%
2023
+3%
+2%
2024
+2%
-4%
Violent crime rates and types in Hyannis
CrimeGrade™ estimates Hyannis has about 29 reported violent crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, more than double the rate for the US as a whole and close to Barnstable Town as a whole.
All violent crime
Assaults
Robbery
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. Violent crime here includes simple assaults, which the FBI's violent crime rate leaves out.
Assault is the most common violent crime in Hyannis, about 93% of the total.
Each CrimeGrade™ here compares a violent crime with the people who spend time in an area, not only the people who live there. 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 violent 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, 56% of aggravated assaults happen at a home, against 53% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
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.
Violent crime in Hyannis and nearby neighborhoods
Hyannis has more violent crime than 8 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods. South Duxbury and Burrage have the least violent crime nearby.
Among the traits that tend to go with violent crime, two set Hyannis apart: it has tree cover over 33% of the land where people live, against 21% nationally, and 8% of its residents in dense blocks, against 24% nationally. Places like that tend to report less robbery.
Tree coverThe share of land under tree canopy where people live. Leafy neighborhoods tend to report less robbery.33% where people liveUS: 21%Higher than for 94% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery.8% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 92% 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 assault.C (37 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 54% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more robbery.119 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher than for 91% 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 violent crime costs Hyannis
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, violent crime costs Hyannis about $34 million a year, or $2,620 per resident. The costs that reach a bill, such as medical care, lost work and the justice system, come to about $7.5 million, or $572 per resident.
Billed cost of violent crime per resident, per year
How CrimeGrade™ works
The violent crime CrimeGrade™ covers murder, rape, robbery and assault, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most, on one scale for the whole country.
It weighs each violent crime against the people who spend time in an area, so a busy downtown is graded on its workers and visitors as well as its residents.
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.
