Crime in Methuen Town, Massachusetts
Major crime in Methuen Town is 50% below the U.S. rate per resident: 56% lower for persons crimes and 49% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 13.1% from a year earlier.
Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this
Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.
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Shoplifting stands out most, at 25% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Methuen Town for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Property crimes
Social disorder
How crime varies across Methuen Town
The middle half of Methuen Town residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 20 and 63; the typical (median) resident's is 27. The citywide figure (50) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5072.5%
- 50–10019.8%
- 100–2002.2%
- 200–4005.5%
- 400+0.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime rose 13.1% in a year; across Massachusetts it fell 5.7%
Change in expected crimes, with Massachusetts as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.
Methuen Town against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
469 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Methuen Town; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Methuen Town has a higher major-crime index than 4 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Lawrence (2 mi), is 31% above Methuen Town's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Methuen Town
What are the most common crimes in Methuen Town?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 218 a year), other larceny (about 104 a year) and aggravated assault (about 65 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 25% above the U.S. rate per resident.
How we calculated this
Each police agency's crimes, as reported to the FBI, are spread across the census block groups it serves using population, jobs, points of interest and, where available, local incident records. Methuen Town's figures add up its 35 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Methuen Town has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 0.0% of residents live in block groups whose estimate has high confidence (80% interval within about 5x).
- Rates are per resident, so places where many people work or visit but few live, such as downtowns, airports and stadiums, can read high.
- Disorderly conduct and trespassing are modeled, because the FBI records them only through arrests.
- Residents: 54,877. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Methuen Town, Massachusetts." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ma/methuen-town
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Lawrence2 mi65
- Andover5 mi38
- Haverhill6 mi62
- Lowell9 mi98
- Wilmington12 mi42
- Londonderry, NH12 mi36
- Derry, NH13 mi45
- Hudson, NH13 mi117