CrimeMetric

Crime in Rumford, Maine

Major crime in Rumford is 11% below the U.S. rate per resident: 62% lower for persons crimes and about the same for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.5% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
89
11% below the U.S. rate
1.6 times the Maine rate
down 7.5% in a year
Persons crimes
38
62% below the U.S. rate
36% above the Maine rate
down 8.3% in a year
Property crimes
100
about the U.S. rate
1.6 times the Maine rate
down 7.4% in a year
Social disorder
145
45% above the U.S. rate
2.2 times the Maine rate
down 4.5% 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 7.5 times the U.S. rate

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

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

Neighborhoods in Rumford

Rumford is made up of 4 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 62; the middle half of residents live where it is between 56 and 85.

Map of Rumford, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the key's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–500.0%
  • 50–10083.8%
  • 100–2000.0%
  • 200–40016.2%
  • 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 6pm133
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am46
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm105
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am40
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 7.5% in a year; across Maine it fell 10.7%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-7.5%ME -10.7%-13.6%ME -12.2%
Persons crimes-8.3%ME -13.1%-0.3%ME -0.5%
Property crimes-7.4%ME -10.4%-14.8%ME -13.3%
Social disorder-4.5%ME -10.4%-3.2%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

Rumford against U.S. places with 2,000 to 5,000 residents

484 of the 1,761 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Rumford; the middle of the group is 58. The 9 nearest in population:

Rumford, ME4,68389
Lowell, MI4,68856
Gretna, NE4,68134
Lyons, GA4,67920

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

Nearby places

Rumford has a higher major-crime index than 5 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Mexico (4 mi), is 44% above Rumford's rate.

Auburn36 mi131
Mexico4 mi128
Lewiston37 mi99
Rumford89
Gorham, NH33 mi88
Norway24 mi83
Berlin, NH30 mi81
Farmington23 mi69
Hallowell43 mi27

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

Questions about crime in Rumford

What are the most common crimes in Rumford?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 46 a year), shoplifting (about 12 a year) and burglary (about 4 a year). Compared with the U.S., intimidation stands out most: 7.5 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. Rumford's figures add up its 4 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Rumford 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: 4,683. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100