Crime in Auburn, Maine
Major crime in Auburn is 31% above the U.S. rate per resident: 53% lower for persons crimes and 49% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 11.9% 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 2.5 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Auburn 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 Auburn
The middle half of Auburn residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 36 and 128; the typical (median) resident's is 41. The citywide figure (131) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5059.0%
- 50–10012.5%
- 100–20019.7%
- 200–4006.8%
- 400+2.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest in the daytime
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 11.9% in a year; across Maine it fell 10.7%
Change in expected crimes, with Maine as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.
Auburn against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
184 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Auburn; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Auburn has a higher major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Lewiston (3 mi), is 24% below Auburn's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Auburn
What are the most common crimes in Auburn?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 231 a year), shoplifting (about 208 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 48 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 2.5 times 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. Auburn's figures add up its 20 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Auburn's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 31.6% 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: 25,944. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Auburn, Maine." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/me/auburn
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100