CrimeMetric

Crime in Presque Isle, Maine

Major crime in Presque Isle is 7% above the U.S. rate per resident: 39% lower for persons crimes and 17% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.8% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
107
7% above the U.S. rate
1.9 times the Maine rate
down 7.8% in a year
Persons crimes
61
39% below the U.S. rate
2.2 times the Maine rate
down 5.2% in a year
Property crimes
117
17% above the U.S. rate
1.8 times the Maine rate
down 8.1% in a year
Social disorder
113
13% above the U.S. rate
1.7 times the Maine rate
down 5.5% 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 3.4 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Presque Isle 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 Presque Isle

The middle half of Presque Isle residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 72 and 137; the typical (median) resident's is 72. The citywide figure (107) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Presque Isle, 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.
  • 0–500.0%
  • 50–10070.7%
  • 100–20016.0%
  • 200–40013.3%
  • 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 weekend daytimes

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

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm145
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am57
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm150
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am61
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 7.8% in a year; across Maine it fell 10.7%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-7.8%ME -10.7%-14.6%ME -12.2%
Persons crimes-5.2%ME -13.1%-3.0%ME -0.5%
Property crimes-8.1%ME -10.4%-16.0%ME -13.3%
Social disorder-5.5%ME -10.4%-7.6%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

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

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

Presque Isle, ME8,700107
Waller, WA8,68773
Murphy, MO8,71260

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

Nearby places

Presque Isle 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, Caribou (12 mi), is 56% below Presque Isle's rate.

Presque Isle107
Houlton40 mi82
Calais112 mi62
Milo108 mi59
Old Town126 mi55
Caribou12 mi47
Fort Kent48 mi34
Madawaska48 mi30

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

Questions about crime in Presque Isle

What are the most common crimes in Presque Isle?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 113 a year), aggravated assault (about 11 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 10 a year). Compared with the U.S., intimidation stands out most: 3.4 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. Presque Isle's figures add up its 8 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Presque Isle 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: 8,700. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Presque Isle, Maine." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/me/presque-isle

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100