HINGHAM, MASS. — A Plymouth County town first settled by English colonists in 1633 recorded zero homicides in 2024, according to FBI data released in October 2025, and its violent crime rate came in at less than half the Massachusetts state average. The bigger security story in Hingham right now sits at the water’s edge, where a former World War II shipyard has spent two decades turning into one of the South Shore’s busiest mixed-use waterfront developments.
By Derek Kreymer, Operations Manager
Hub Security and Investigative Group provides security guard services in Hingham, MA — armed and unarmed guards, mobile patrol, and licensed private investigation services — for a Plymouth County town of 24,283 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate) on Boston Harbor’s South Shore. Hingham was incorporated in 1635, and the seventeenth-century Old Ship Church still stands in Hingham Square as the oldest church in continuous use in the United States. The town’s Bethlehem Hingham Shipyard, once a major World War II shipbuilding site, has been redeveloped into a waterfront district of shops, restaurants and residences with a commuter ferry terminal to downtown Boston.
Security Built Around Hingham’s Districts
Hingham Square, the colonial-era town center around the Old Ship Church, holds a dense cluster of small retail shops, restaurants and professional offices. Hub Security assigns retail security officers to this historic downtown core.
The Hingham Shipyard waterfront district draws the heaviest outside traffic in town, between its retail shops, restaurants and the commuter ferry terminal, and redevelopment along the site continues in phases, with new residential and retail buildings still going up along the harbor. Hub provides both retail security officers for the shopping area and construction site security guards for the active building phases.
Blue Cross Blue Shield operates a major corporate campus in Hingham employing roughly 1,500 people, one of the largest employers in town. Hub’s corporate security teams cover access control and after-hours patrol for office campuses like this one.
South Hingham and West Hingham, the town’s larger residential sections away from the harbor, are made up mostly of single-family homes on wooded lots. Hub’s residential security patrols cover these neighborhoods.
What Local Crime Data Actually Shows
Hingham recorded a violent crime rate of 1.31 per 1,000 residents in 2024, according to FBI crime data compiled by NeighborhoodScout — well below the Massachusetts state average of 3.15 per 1,000. Property crime came in at 8.11 per 1,000 residents, also below the state average of 11.12. NeighborhoodScout ranked the town as safer than 42 percent of U.S. cities, with zero homicides recorded for the year.
Those numbers describe a fundamentally low-crime town, but the Shipyard district changes the calculation for property owners there specifically: it draws a regional customer base to its shops and restaurants, runs an active ferry terminal handling daily commuter traffic, and has ongoing construction sites carrying equipment and materials — all conditions that generate more property-crime and access-control exposure than Hingham’s quiet residential sections. Hub Security’s officers and mobile patrol supervisors weight their coverage toward those specific risk points.
Coverage by District
| District | Key Local Features | Hub Security Focus |
|---|---|---|
| Hingham Square | Old Ship Church, colonial-era retail and professional offices | Retail security |
| Hingham Shipyard | Waterfront retail, restaurants, commuter ferry terminal, active construction phases | Retail & construction site security |
| Corporate campuses (Blue Cross Blue Shield and others) | Major office employers, roughly 1,500 jobs at Blue Cross Blue Shield alone | Corporate security |
| South Hingham / West Hingham | Single-family residential neighborhoods on wooded lots | Residential patrol |
What Hub Security Provides in Hingham
- Retail security officers for Hingham Square and the Shipyard shopping district
- Construction site security guards for active building phases at the Shipyard
- Corporate security for Blue Cross Blue Shield and other Hingham office campuses
- Residential security patrols for South Hingham and West Hingham neighborhoods
- Mobile patrol with GPS-verified checkpoints across all Hingham routes
- Background check services and corporate investigations for Hingham employers
Serving Hingham and the Surrounding Area
Hingham sits on the South Shore alongside several other Massachusetts towns Hub Security already patrols. Crews assigned to Hingham cover these neighboring service areas as part of the same regional routes.
- Our coverage in Weymouth
- Our coverage in Braintree
- Our coverage in Quincy
- Our coverage in Marshfield
Why Hingham Businesses and Residents Choose Hub
- Massachusetts-licensed for both security guard services and private investigation work
- Fully insured, with background-checked and trained officers on every post
- GPS patrol tracking and unannounced supervisor inspections on every shift
- Local management that knows Hingham’s streets and districts — not a national call center or app-based broker
- 24/7 emergency dispatch at (617) 857-1200
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Hub Security provide coverage for the Hingham Shipyard retail and construction areas? Yes. Hub assigns retail security officers to the Shipyard’s shops and restaurants and separate construction site security guards to its active building phases, since the two carry different risk profiles.
Does Hub Security provide both armed and unarmed guards in Hingham? Yes. Hub supplies both armed and unarmed officers in Hingham depending on the site, risk level and client preference, along with supervised mobile patrol coverage.
Is Hub Security licensed to conduct private investigations in Massachusetts? Yes. Hub Security and Investigative Group holds Massachusetts licensing for both security guard services and private investigation work, including background checks and corporate investigations for Hingham businesses.
What areas of Hingham does Hub Security cover? Hub covers all of Hingham, including Hingham Square, the Hingham Shipyard waterfront district, corporate campuses such as Blue Cross Blue Shield, and the South Hingham and West Hingham residential neighborhoods.
Call Hub Security & Investigative Group at (617) 857-1200 for a free consultation on security guard services in Hingham, MA, or request a quote online.