CrimeMetric

Crime in Topsham, Maine

Major crime in Topsham is 29% below the U.S. rate per resident: 84% lower for persons crimes and 17% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.3% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
71
29% below the U.S. rate
24% above the Maine rate
down 7.3% in a year
Persons crimes
16
84% below the U.S. rate
43% below the Maine rate
down 5.7% in a year
Property crimes
83
17% below the U.S. rate
31% above the Maine rate
down 7.3% in a year
Social disorder
50
50% below the U.S. rate
22% below the Maine rate
down 5.0% 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

Shoplifting stands out most, at 1.9 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Topsham 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 Topsham

The middle half of Topsham residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 22 and 32; the typical (median) resident's is 25. The citywide figure (71) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Topsham, 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.
  • 0–5075.1%
  • 50–1000.0%
  • 100–2000.0%
  • 200–40024.9%
  • 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 6pm119
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am23
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm80
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am27
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 7.3% in a year; across Maine it fell 10.7%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-7.3%ME -10.7%-12.3%ME -12.2%
Persons crimes-5.7%ME -13.1%+0.7%ME -0.5%
Property crimes-7.3%ME -10.4%-12.8%ME -13.3%
Social disorder-5.0%ME -10.4%-2.7%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

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

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

Clinton, OK7,898108
Kenai, AK7,90875
Topsham, ME7,91171
Addis, LA7,90749

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

Nearby places

Topsham 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, Brunswick (3 mi), is 42% below Topsham's rate.

Auburn18 mi131
Lewiston16 mi99
Topsham71
Gardiner20 mi63
Bath6 mi49
Brunswick3 mi41
Lisbon10 mi36
Yarmouth15 mi27

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

Questions about crime in Topsham

What are the most common crimes in Topsham?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 48 a year), other larceny (about 37 a year) and burglary (about 3 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 1.9 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. Topsham's figures add up its 6 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Topsham'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: 7,911. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100