Decision-support ranking comparing Rhode Island cities by current violent crime per 1,000 using the currently published coarse crime context, then routing readers into each city brief for tract context and caveats.
Ranked rows are precomputed and served as static HTML from R2.
| # | Place | Metric | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Woonsocket Violent Crime has declined 22% since 2021. |
4.3 / 1k | → |
| 2 | Pawtucket Violent Crime has declined 28% since 2021. |
3.1 / 1k | → |
| 3 | Central Falls Violent Crime has declined 9% since 2021. |
2.9 / 1k | → |
| 4 | Providence Violent Crime has declined 33% since 2021. |
2.6 / 1k | → |
| 5 | West Warwick Violent Crime has declined 4% since 2021. |
2.2 / 1k | → |
| 6 | Newport Violent Crime has declined 17% since 2021. |
1.9 / 1k | → |
| 7 | Warren Violent Crime has declined 44% since 2021. |
1.4 / 1k | → |
| 8 | Middletown Violent Crime has declined 39% since 2021. |
1.4 / 1k | → |
| 9 | North Providence Violent Crime has increased 20% since 2021. |
1.2 / 1k | → |
| 10 | Johnston Violent Crime moved up by 0.2 / 1k from 0.9 / 1k in 2021 to 1.1 / 1k in 2024. The earlier baseline was too small for a reliable headline percentage. |
1.1 / 1k | → |
| 11 | Cranston Violent Crime has declined 31% since 2021. |
0.9 / 1k | → |
| 12 | Coventry Violent Crime has declined 36% since 2021. |
0.9 / 1k | → |
| 13 | Narragansett Violent Crime moved up by 0.6 / 1k from 0.3 / 1k in 2021 to 0.9 / 1k in 2024. The earlier baseline was too small for a reliable headline percentage. |
0.9 / 1k | → |
| 14 | Tiverton Violent Crime has declined 18% since 2021. |
0.9 / 1k | → |
| 15 | East Providence Violent Crime has declined 50% since 2021. |
0.8 / 1k | → |
| 16 | North Smithfield Violent Crime moved up by 0.2 / 1k from 0.5 / 1k in 2021 to 0.7 / 1k in 2024. The earlier baseline was too small for a reliable headline percentage. |
0.7 / 1k | → |
| 17 | Westerly Violent Crime has been relatively flat over the tracked period. |
0.7 / 1k | → |
| 18 | South Kingstown Violent Crime moved down by 0.1 / 1k from 0.7 / 1k in 2021 to 0.6 / 1k in 2024. The earlier baseline was too small for a reliable headline percentage. |
0.6 / 1k | → |
| 19 | Cumberland Violent Crime moved down by 0.3 / 1k from 0.9 / 1k in 2021 to 0.6 / 1k in 2024. The earlier baseline was too small for a reliable headline percentage. |
0.6 / 1k | → |
| 20 | North Kingstown Violent Crime moved down by 0.1 / 1k from 0.7 / 1k in 2021 to 0.6 / 1k in 2024. The earlier baseline was too small for a reliable headline percentage. |
0.6 / 1k | → |
| 21 | Bristol Violent Crime moved down by 0.1 / 1k from 0.4 / 1k in 2021 to 0.3 / 1k in 2024. The earlier baseline was too small for a reliable headline percentage. |
0.3 / 1k | → |
| 22 | East Greenwich Violent Crime moved down by 0.4 / 1k from 0.7 / 1k in 2021 to 0.3 / 1k in 2024. The earlier baseline was too small for a reliable headline percentage. |
0.3 / 1k | → |
| 23 | Portsmouth Violent Crime moved down by 0.6 / 1k from 0.8 / 1k in 2021 to 0.2 / 1k in 2024. The earlier baseline was too small for a reliable headline percentage. |
0.2 / 1k | → |
| 24 | West Greenwich Violent Crime moved down by 0.2 / 1k from 0.3 / 1k in 2021 to 0.1 / 1k in 2024. The earlier baseline was too small for a reliable headline percentage. |
0.1 / 1k | → |
This page is useful for a current statewide pressure screen. It compares supported Rhode Island cities by aggregate violent-crime rate before you open the deeper city briefs. Outside Colorado, this remains statewide fallback context rather than local incident-feed depth.
A current city rate does not tell you whether conditions are improving, how concentrated the pressure is, or which neighborhoods are driving it. Open the city brief and neighborhood pages next.