Crime in Augusta, Maine
Major crime in Augusta is 2.0 times the U.S. rate per resident: 26% lower for persons crimes and 2.3 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.6% 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 4.4 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Augusta 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 Augusta
The middle half of Augusta residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 64 and 175; the typical (median) resident's is 146. The citywide figure (202) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–10030.6%
- 100–20049.0%
- 200–4003.7%
- 400+16.6%
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 fell 7.6% 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.
Augusta against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
116 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Augusta; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Augusta 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, Hallowell (3 mi), is 87% below Augusta's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Augusta
What are the most common crimes in Augusta?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 271 a year), other larceny (about 235 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 50 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 4.4 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. Augusta's figures add up its 18 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Augusta's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 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: 19,210. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Augusta, Maine." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/me/augusta
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Hallowell3 mi27
- Gardiner8 mi63
- Waterville17 mi151
- Winslow17 mi51
- Fairfield20 mi94
- Lisbon Falls26 mi32
- Lewiston26 mi99
- Lisbon27 mi36