CrimeMetric

Crime in Bath, Maine

Major crime in Bath is 52% below the U.S. rate per resident: 82% lower for persons crimes and 45% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.2% from a year earlier.

Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this

Major crime
49
52% below the U.S. rate
15% below the Maine rate
down 7.2% in a year
Persons crimes
18
82% below the U.S. rate
37% below the Maine rate
down 5.1% in a year
Property crimes
55
45% below the U.S. rate
13% below the Maine rate
down 7.4% in a year
Social disorder
78
22% below the U.S. rate
22% above the Maine rate
down 4.9% in a year

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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Crime by type

Intimidation stands out most, at 3.0 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Bath for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

How crime varies across Bath

The middle half of Bath residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 20 and 68; the typical (median) resident's is 33. The citywide figure (49) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Bath, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the bar's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5073.0%
  • 50–10021.1%
  • 100–2006.0%
  • 200–4000.0%
  • 400+0.0%

Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.

When it happens

Highest on weekday daytimes

Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm76
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am20
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm58
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am21
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 7.2% in a year; across Maine it fell 10.7%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-7.2%ME -10.7%-15.1%ME -12.2%
Persons crimes-5.1%ME -13.1%-2.2%ME -0.5%
Property crimes-7.4%ME -10.4%-16.0%ME -13.3%
Social disorder-4.9%ME -10.4%-5.4%ME -5.1%

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.

Similar-size places

Bath against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents

1,412 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Bath; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:

Clinton, SC8,860186
Quincy, WA8,85072
Maize, KS8,85962
Bath, ME8,85649

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.

Nearby places

Bath 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, Topsham (6 mi), is 46% above Bath's rate.

Auburn24 mi131
Lewiston22 mi99
Topsham6 mi71
Gardiner20 mi63
Bath49
Brunswick7 mi41
Lisbon16 mi36
Yarmouth20 mi27

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.

Questions about crime in Bath

What are the most common crimes in Bath?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 59 a year), burglary (about 4 a year) and aggravated assault (about 4 a year). Compared with the U.S., intimidation stands out most: 3.0 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. Bath's figures add up its 9 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Bath'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: 8,856. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Bath, Maine." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/me/bath

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100