Crime in Portland, Maine
Major crime in Portland is 13% below the U.S. rate per resident: 45% lower for persons crimes and 5% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 29.7% 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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Theft from vehicle and rape / sexual assault stand out most, at about 16% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Portland 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 Portland
The middle half of Portland residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 29 and 99; the typical (median) resident's is 47. The citywide figure (88) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5054.5%
- 50–10020.8%
- 100–20016.7%
- 200–4004.0%
- 400+4.0%
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 fell 29.7% 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.
Portland against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
295 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Portland; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Portland has a higher major-crime index than 6 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, South Portland (3 mi), is 23% below Portland's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Portland
What are the most common crimes in Portland?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 359 a year), theft from vehicle (about 217 a year) and shoplifting (about 197 a year). Compared with the U.S., theft from vehicle stands out most: 16% 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. Portland's figures add up its 61 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Portland's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 29.8% 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: 70,531. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Portland, Maine." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/me/portland
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- South Portland3 mi68
- Westbrook4 mi79
- Oak Hill6 mi100
- Yarmouth10 mi27
- Old Orchard Beach12 mi57
- Saco14 mi60
- Biddeford16 mi121
- Brunswick23 mi41