Table 13

MASSACHUSETTS
Hate Crime Incidents
per Bias Motivation and Quarter
by Agency, 2017
Number of incidents per bias motivation

Race/
Ethnicity/ Sexual Gender
Agency type Agency name Ancestry Religion orientation Disability Gender identity
Total 232 118 65 9 8 9

Cities 185 110 60 9 8 9

Acton 5 2 1 0 0 0
Agawam 1 0 0 0 0 0
Amherst2 1 0 1 0 2 0
Andover 1 2 0 0 0 0
Arlington 2 7 1 1 0 3
Ashburnham 1 0 0 0 0 0
Attleboro 1 0 0 0 0 0
Barnstable 2 0 0 0 0 0
Belmont 1 0 0 0 0 0
Beverly 1 0 0 0 0 0
Bolton 1 0 0 0 0 0
Boston2 79 28 33 0 0 1
Boxford 0 1 0 0 0 0
Braintree 4 1 0 0 0 2
Bridgewater 1 0 0 0 0 0
Brockton 1 0 0 0 0 0
Cambridge2 5 3 2 0 0 0
Chelmsford 0 1 1 0 0 0
Chelsea2 2 1 0 0 0 0
Concord 0 0 0 1 0 0
Danvers 0 2 0 1 0 0
Dracut 0 4 1 0 0 0
Duxbury 1 2 0 0 0 0
Edgartown 0 0 1 0 0 0
Everett 2 0 0 0 0 0
Fitchburg 1 0 0 0 0 0
Framingham 1 3 1 0 0 0
Grafton 2 0 0 0 0 0
Greenfield 1 0 0 0 0 0
Haverhill 2 1 0 0 0 0
Hingham 1 0 0 0 0 0
Holland 0 0 0 0 1 0
Hudson 0 2 0 0 0 0
Lexington 0 1 0 0 0 0
Lincoln 0 2 0 0 0 0
Lowell 0 1 1 0 0 0
Lynn2 5 0 2 0 0 0
Malden2 3 2 0 0 0 0
Manchester-by-the-Sea 0 0 0 1 0 0
Mansfield 1 0 0 0 0 0
Marblehead 0 1 0 0 0 0
Mashpee 0 1 0 0 0 0
Medford 5 1 0 1 0 0
Medway 1 0 0 0 0 0
Millbury 0 1 0 0 0 0
Milton 0 1 1 0 0 0
Nahant 0 1 0 0 0 0
Natick 0 1 0 0 0 0
New Bedford 0 0 1 0 0 0
Newburyport 0 1 0 0 0 0
Newton 3 7 2 0 0 0
North Andover 1 0 0 0 0 0
Northbridge 1 0 0 0 0 0
Northfield 0 4 4 0 0 0
Norwell 1 0 0 0 0 0
Pittsfield 0 1 0 0 0 0
Plymouth 0 1 0 0 0 0
Provincetown 1 0 1 0 0 0
Quincy2 8 2 1 0 0 0
Raynham 0 0 0 0 0 1
Reading 0 1 1 0 0 0
Revere 2 1 0 0 0 0
Rutland 0 1 0 0 0 0
Salem2 8 5 0 0 0 0
Salisbury 1 0 0 0 0 0
Saugus 1 0 0 0 0 0
Sharon 0 0 1 0 0 0
Shrewsbury 0 1 0 0 0 0
Somerville2 6 2 1 1 0 0
Southbridge 0 1 0 0 0 0
Springfield 5 1 1 0 0 1
Stoneham 0 0 0 1 0 0
Stoughton 0 1 0 0 0 0
 Sudbury 0 1 0 0 0 0
Swampscott 0 1 0 0 1 0
Taunton 1 1 0 1 2 0
Tewksbury 1 0 0 0 0 0
Truro 1 0 0 0 0 0
Walpole 1 0 0 0 0 0
Waltham 1 1 1 1 2 0
Ware 1 0 0 0 0 0
Watertown 0 0 0 0 0 1
Webster 1 0 0 0 0 0
Westborough 0 1 0 0 0 0
Worcester2 5 1 0 0 0 0
Wrentham 0 1 0 0 0 0

Universities and Colleges 37 8 4 0 0 0

Amherst College 0 0 2 0 0 0
Boston College 5 0 0 0 0 0
Boston University2 5 3 1 0 0 0
Clark University 0 2 0 0 0 0
College of the Holy Cross 0 0 1 0 0 0
Dean College 1 0 0 0 0 0
Framingham State University 8 0 0 0 0 0
Hampshire College 3 0 0 0 0 0
Harvard University 1 0 0 0 0 0
Massasoit Community College 0 1 0 0 0 0
Springfield Technical Community College 3 0 0 0 0 0
University of Massachusetts, Amherst 1 0 0 0 0 0
Westfield State University2 10 2 0 0 0 0

Other Agencies 10 0 1 0 0 0
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority:
Middlesex County 1 0 0 0 0 0
Suffolk County 4 0 0 0 0 0
Massachusetts General Hospital 5 0 1 0 0 0
1 Population figures are published only for the cities. The figures listed for the universities and colleges are student enrollment and were provided by the United States Department of Education for the 2016 school year, the most
recent available. The enrollment figures include full-time and part-time students.
2 Includes one incident reported with more than one bias motivation.