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Hopkinton Ranked in Top 5 Safest Towns in Massachusetts

By Tom Nappi, News Director
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An organization called Safewise, who works to increase home and community safety released the "Top 20 Safest Cities in Massachusetts for 2017" list and Hopkinton is ranked towards the top of the list.

The organization ranked Hopkinton 5th on the list behind Wayland, Weston, Norfolk and Boxford. On last years list Hopkinton was ranked 4th. Cities and Towns with fewer than 8,000 residents did not qualify for the study. "We narrowed it down based on the number of reported violent crimes (aggravated assault, murder, rape, and robbery) and property crimes (burglary, arson, larceny-theft, and motor vehicle theft) in each city. To further level the playing field, we calculated the likelihood of these crimes occurring out of 1,000 people in each city." Hopkinton was ranked as having only 0.00 violent crimes per 1,000 residents and 3.18 property crimes per 1,000 residents. The Violent Crimes in Hopkinton dropped from last years list. Last year it was 0.06 and now it's at 0.00 but property crimes climbed from last years 2.38.

Check out the full list here: http://www.safewise.com/blog/safest-cities-massachusetts/