Massachusetts Sex Offender Registry Search
Registered sex offenders near any Massachusetts address, counted for you — free.
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Public registry information. It may not be used for employment, tenant, credit or insurance decisions, or to harass or threaten anyone.
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Trick-or-treating in Massachusetts this Halloween? Check sex offenders on your route.
Check the streets on your route for registered sex offenders before you go. Search any address and see who is registered nearby, with photos and official record links.
Search the Massachusetts registry by name. Checking a new babysitter, date or neighbor? Type their name.
Search Massachusetts's registry — and every other US registry at the same time. Continuously updated records with photographs, addresses, offenses and a link to the official registry entry for every match. Type a name; no code needed.
A Background Check is $9.99, paid once: the name plus where they live or work, across 58 registries and criminal records. Building this into a product? For developers: the API.
Photographs and official records
Matches come back as people, not rows — the registry photograph, date of birth, addresses and offense, with a link to the official Massachusetts record so you can verify at the source.
The whole country in one search
People move. One search here covers Massachusetts and every other US registry at once, so a registration in Connecticut and New Hampshire shows up on someone now living in Boston.
Every search, kept
Each check is stored with the results you saw — an audit trail you can reopen, share with teammates, and stand behind later. Upload a CSV to screen a whole list in one pass.
What the Massachusetts sex offender registry shows you, and what it leaves out. Knowing both keeps a search useful and fair.
What a Massachusetts registry search shows
- The person's registry photograph, name and any other names they use
- Their age, and their date of birth as Massachusetts publishes it
- Home, work and school addresses, each labelled
- The offense they were convicted of, and when
- Their risk level and whether they are keeping up with registration
- A link to the official Massachusetts SORB entry so you can confirm it
What it cannot tell you
- Whether someone is safe. The registry lists a conviction, not a prediction
- Anyone who was never convicted, or whose requirement has ended
- Other criminal history. For that, see Massachusetts criminal records
- A reason to harass anyone. Using registry information to threaten someone is a crime
What registered sex offenders in Massachusetts are registered for. About half are registered for sexual offense against a child.
The most common offense among registrants in Massachusetts on our index is sexual offense against a child (59%), followed by unwanted sexual contact (29%). Based on 4,624 registrants whose registry entry names the offense.
Tier or risk level
Level 3 51% · Level 2 49%
Age today
Under 30: 4% · 30–39: 16% · 40–49: 21% · 50–59: 24% · 60–69: 23% · 70 and over: 11%
Who is listed
99% men, 1% women. 100% of entries include a registry photo.
- Sexual offense against a child59%
- Unwanted sexual contact29%
- Rape or sexual assault23%
- Child sexual abuse material13%
- Soliciting or enticing a minor5%
- Indecent exposure3%
- Sex trafficking or prostitution-related2%
- Incest1%
Categories are our grouping of the offense each registry publishes for a registrant; a person can appear in more than one category, so shares can add up to more than 100%. Figures as of 2026-10-08. What each category means.
Searching the Massachusetts state site vs searching here for Massachusetts sex offenders. Both are free to start; here is what is different.
Massachusetts's own public search is Massachusetts SORB — free, official, and the right place for a one-off look at a single state. Here is what changes when you run the same search here instead.
| On the Massachusetts state site | Searching here | |
|---|---|---|
| Coverage per search | Massachusetts only. A registration in any other state never appears. | Every US registry at once — the 50 states, DC and the territories. 58 registries in one search. |
| Your search history | Nothing is saved. Checking the same person next month means starting over, with no record you ever looked. | Every search is stored with the results you saw — a real audit trail you can reopen. |
| Narrowing a common name | Whatever the search form offers, one attempt at a time. | Date of birth, age give-or-take, city, ZIP, street address — and misspellings caught when you want them. |
| Checking a whole list | One name at a time, by hand. | Upload a CSV and screen everyone in one pass. |
| Working as a team | No accounts, so no way to share what has been checked. | Add teammates to one workspace with a shared history. |
| Building it into your product | No API. | A full REST API on the same data, when you are ready for it. |
| Near your address | A map you search area by area. | A free count of the registered sex offenders near your address, then everyone near it with photos on a map for $9.99 once. |
| Alerts | No alerts. You check again yourself. | Family Watch: up to 3 addresses, an email when someone registers, moves in or moves out near any of them. $34.99 a year, cancel any time. |
| Confirming a match | You are already on the official record. | Every match links straight to its official Massachusetts SORB entry. |
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How many registered sex offenders live near your Massachusetts address?
Enter your address and you will see how many live near it.
Checking one person? A Background Check is $9.99 — name plus where they live or work, across 58 registries and criminal records.Run a Background Check
Free: the count near your address. Optional: see everyone near it — $9.99 once, or Family Watch, $34.99 a year for 3 addresses with email alerts.
Public registry information. It may not be used for employment, tenant, credit or insurance decisions, or to harass or threaten anyone.
Massachusetts sex offender search coverage: the Massachusetts dataset, specifically. What a search here covers.
| Scope | Massachusetts is in every search by default, and one setting narrows to it alone — in the dashboard a dropdown, in the API jurisdictions: ["MA"]. |
|---|---|
| Date-of-birth matching | A date-of-birth criterion in Massachusetts resolves at year precision and returns year_match, so a same-year namesake is labelled rather than silently accepted. Match strength is a label on every record — year_match — rather than a yes or no, so you set your own threshold. 7 of the 56 jurisdictions we cover resolve it the way Massachusetts does. |
| Best criteria to send | Send dob whenever you hold one — it is accepted in Massachusetts exactly as it is everywhere else, and it narrows rather than filters, so a record with thinner birth evidence still comes back on the name. In Massachusetts it resolves at year precision, so read matchState for year_match and hold your own threshold for it. |
| Location search | Narrow to a Massachusetts city or ZIP, or search a radius of up to 100 miles around a point. Addresses come back as typed entries — residence, secondary, employment, school — so a work address in Boston is distinguishable from a home address. |
| Freshness | Continuously updated, so a Regular result is close to live, and every record returns the date it was last checked. |
| Verification | Every Massachusetts match links to the person's official entry on Massachusetts SORB, so any record can be confirmed at the official registry before you act on it. |
Registry data is not a consumer report, and decisions made on it are regulated in that use.
Massachusetts sex offender registry and its neighbors: how Massachusetts behaves next to the jurisdictions around it. People move, so one search covers the neighbors too.
Registration follows the person, not the state line, so screening that covers Massachusetts almost always has to read Connecticut, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont in the same breath. One search here covers every row at once.
The step-by-step guide: how to search sex offenders in Massachusetts.
| Jurisdiction | Date-of-birth match | matchState | Registered population |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | Year precision | year_match | — |
| Connecticut sex offender registry | Full date | dob_match | — |
| New Hampshire sex offender registry | Full date | dob_match | — |
| New York sex offender registry | Full date | dob_match | — |
| Rhode Island sex offender registry | Full date | dob_match | ≈ 1,540 |
| Vermont sex offender registry | Full date | dob_match | — |
What a Massachusetts sex offender record shows: what comes back for MA. Every match is a person you can recognise, with the official record one click away.
The same layout for Massachusetts and every other US registry, so a match from Connecticut reads exactly like one from Boston.
| Photograph | The registry photograph, newest first. |
|---|---|
| Name | Legal name and every other name on file. |
| Age and birth date | As Massachusetts publishes them, with how closely they matched what you typed. |
| Description | Height, weight, eye and hair colour, scars, marks and tattoos. |
| Addresses | Home, work and school addresses, each labelled, with city, county and ZIP. |
| Offense | What the person was convicted of, where and when. |
| Registration | Risk level, registration dates, and whether they are compliant. |
| Official record | A link to the person's entry on the Massachusetts SORB. |
Is the Massachusetts sex offender registry search free? The count near your address is free; a Background Check is $9.99.
Your count
How many registered sex offenders live near your address. No card.
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Names, photographs, offenses and distance for everyone within 30 miles of one address, on a map and as a PDF. Pay once, open for 30 days.
Family Watch
Up to 3 addresses — home, school, grandparents — each unlocked, plus an email when someone registers, moves in or moves out nearby. Or $6.99 a month. Cancel any time.
Massachusetts offender search FAQ. Short answers before you search.
How many registered sex offenders are there in Massachusetts?
Massachusetts is a jurisdiction where the size of the register moves week to week, and a single headline number would be out of date the day it was published. A search answers the question that actually matters — whether a named person appears — with a scored, labelled result rather than a count.
Should I search Massachusetts's official registry site or here?
Massachusetts SORB is free and covers Massachusetts. Searching here covers Massachusetts and every other US registry in the same search, keeps a stored history of every check you run with the results you saw, narrows by date of birth, age, city, ZIP or street address, takes a whole CSV list at once, supports teammates on one workspace, and has a full API behind it. If you check people more than once, or people who may have lived anywhere else, that is the difference that matters.
How do I search Massachusetts sex offender records by name and date of birth?
Type a last name and add whatever else you hold — first name, date of birth, city or ZIP. In the dashboard that is a form; through the API it is one request with jurisdictions: ["MA"] to scope the answer to Massachusetts. Send dob whenever you hold one — it is accepted in Massachusetts exactly as it is everywhere else, and it narrows rather than filters, so a record with thinner birth evidence still comes back on the name. In Massachusetts it resolves at year precision, so read matchState for year_match and hold your own threshold for it.
Does a Massachusetts search include people registered in other states?
It does when you let it. A search with no state scope runs across every US registry in one pass, which is how a prior registration in Connecticut and New Hampshire surfaces on someone now living in Massachusetts. Scoping to Massachusetts narrows deliberately to the MA roster — the two are one setting apart, and every response reports which registries answered.
What does a Massachusetts record contain?
Every MA record returns under the same normalized shape as the other 57 jurisdictions: identity and aliases, birth evidence with its precision stated, physical description, typed addresses, offense and conviction detail, tier or risk level, registration and compliance status, photographs newest-first, and match scoring on every record. One integration — or one dashboard — reads all of them.
Can I search Massachusetts by city or ZIP code?
Yes. Narrow to any Massachusetts city or ZIP, or sweep a radius of up to 100 miles around a point. Addresses come back as typed entries — residence, secondary, employment, school — so a work address in Boston reads differently from a home address, and each entry carries its own city, county, ZIP and coordinates where geocoded.
How current is a Massachusetts result?
The dataset is continuously updated, so a Regular result is close to live — and when a decision needs a current, moment-of-decision check, a live block re-verifies the named jurisdictions at the source in the same request. Every record returns its own lastCheckedAt, so currency is a value you read off the response rather than a claim you take on trust.
Check your own Massachusetts address for registered sex offenders
The count of registered sex offenders near your address is free.
Checking one person? A Background Check is $9.99 — name plus where they live or work, across 58 registries and criminal records.Run a Background Check
Free: the count near your address. Optional: see everyone near it — $9.99 once, or Family Watch, $34.99 a year for 3 addresses with email alerts.
Public registry information. It may not be used for employment, tenant, credit or insurance decisions, or to harass or threaten anyone.
Massachusetts county sex offender registries. Massachusetts county pages for every county we cover.
- Barnstable County sex offender registry
- Berkshire County sex offender registry
- Bristol County sex offender registry
- Essex County sex offender registry
- Hampden County sex offender registry
- Hampshire County sex offender registry
- Middlesex County sex offender registry
- Norfolk County sex offender registry
- Plymouth County sex offender registry
- Suffolk County sex offender registry
- Worcester County sex offender registry
Sex offenders in Massachusetts cities. Massachusetts city pages, each with its own count and map.
- Boston sex offenders
- Brockton sex offenders
- Cambridge sex offenders
- Chicopee sex offenders
- Everett sex offenders
- Fall River sex offenders
- Framingham sex offenders
- Haverhill sex offenders
- Lawrence sex offenders
- Lowell sex offenders
- Lynn sex offenders
- Malden sex offenders
- Medford sex offenders
- Methuen Town sex offenders
- New Bedford sex offenders
- Newton sex offenders
- Peabody sex offenders
- Quincy sex offenders
- Revere sex offenders
- Somerville sex offenders
- Springfield sex offenders
- Taunton sex offenders
- Waltham sex offenders
- Weymouth Town sex offenders
- Worcester sex offenders
Background checks in Massachusetts. Plain guides to what a check shows.
Massachusetts sex offender alerts. Get alerts for Massachusetts.
We'll email you when a registered offender is added or moves near your Massachusetts address — a recurring watch on our continuously updated data.
The count near your address is free. Family Watch — up to 3 addresses with email alerts — is $34.99 a year, or $6.99 a month, optional, and you can cancel any time.
This is not a consumer report and must not be used for FCRA-governed hiring, tenancy, or credit decisions — those run through FCRA Partner Access.
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