Crime in Saco, Maine
Major crime in Saco is 40% below the U.S. rate per resident: 78% lower for persons crimes and 32% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.0% 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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Every crime type in Saco is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Saco 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 Saco
The middle half of Saco residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 20 and 82; the typical (median) resident's is 27. The citywide figure (60) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5065.4%
- 50–10011.1%
- 100–20017.7%
- 200–4005.8%
- 400+0.0%
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 8.0% 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.
Saco against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
1,290 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Saco; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Saco has a higher major-crime index than 2 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Old Orchard Beach (3 mi), is 6% below Saco's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Saco
What are the most common crimes in Saco?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 86 a year), shoplifting (about 67 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 25 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: about 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. Saco's figures add up its 13 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Saco'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: 21,202. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Saco, Maine." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/me/saco
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Old Orchard Beach3 mi57
- Biddeford3 mi121
- Oak Hill8 mi100
- South Portland12 mi68
- Westbrook12 mi79
- Portland14 mi88
- Sanford17 mi135
- Yarmouth24 mi27