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WORCESTER – There have been more than 200 car thefts over the past six months [Sep. 5, 2018 – March 4, 2019] in Worcester, according to data compiled on CrimeReports.com from the Worcester Police Department [WPD],
Of those car thefts, nearly 50% occurred during typical school and work hours — 8 AM to 6 PM.
In late 2018, the FBI released their property crimes data from the 2017 Uniform Crime Reporting [UCR] Program [the most recent data]— a collection of the number of offenses that come to the attention of law enforcement for violent crime and property crime across each town, city, state and region in the United States.
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According to the FBI’s data, across the United States in cities the size of Worcester [populations of 100,000 to 249,999] there were more than 91,000 cars, more than 16,000 trucks and buses, and nearly 10,000 other automobiles stolen in 2017.
SEE LIST BELOW: The 10 Mass. Cities with the Most Car Thefts
Nationwide, there were an estimated 773,138 motor vehicle thefts in 2017 — a rate of more than 237 thefts per 100,000 people.
Car thefts increased by 0.8 percent in 2017 compared to 2016 and went up by more than 10 percent compared to 2013 rates. However, car thefts dropped by nearly 20 percent over a ten-year period from 2008.
Motor vehicle thefts in 2017 cost nearly $6 billion in losses — with an average loss of more than $7,000 per vehicle. More than 75 percent of all motor vehicles stolen in 2017 were automobiles.
ThisWeekinWorcester.com has gathered local and state data from the FBI and ranked the 10 cities and towns in Massachusetts with the highest car theft rates per capita [1,000 people].
Here are the 10 Massachusetts Cities with the Most Car Thefts per capita in 2017:
#10 – Worcester
Population: 185,107
Car Thefts: 397
Car Thefts per 1,000 residents: 2.14
#9 – Chicopee
Population: 56,255
Car Thefts: 128
Car Thefts per 1,000 residents: 2.27
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#8 – West Springfield
Population: 28,635
Car Thefts: 67
Car Thefts per 1,000 residents: 2.33
#7 – Lynn
Population: 93,140
Car Thefts: 231
Car Thefts per 1,000 residents: 2.48
#6 – Fall River
Population: 89,012
Car Thefts: 229
Car Thefts per 1,000 residents: 2.57
#5 – Holyoke
Population: 40,451
Car Thefts: 111
Car Thefts per 1,000 residents: 2.74
#4 – Lowell
Population: 111,294
Car Thefts: 354
Car Thefts per 1,000 residents: 3.18
#3 – Springfield
Population: 154,562
Car Thefts: 509
Car Thefts per 1,000 residents: 3.29
#2- Brockton
Population: 96,016
Car Thefts: 384
Car Thefts per 1,000 residents: 3.99
#1- Lawrence
Population: 80,890
Car Thefts: 408
Car Thefts per 1,000 residents: 5.04
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