In 2025, Worcester saw the lowest number of homicides in more than 30 years, according to data from the Worcester Police Department and the FBI.
Only two homicides, both of them shootings, were reported in Massachusetts’s second-largest city last year, according to the Worcester Police Department.
It is the lowest number of homicides reported in Worcester in the span of 33 years, according to the FBI’s Crime Data Tracker. Prior to 2025, the lowest number of homicides reported in Worcester from 1992 to 2025 was four in 1998…