Crime in Manchester, New Hampshire
Major crime in Manchester is about the U.S. rate per resident: about the same for persons crimes and 6% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 3.8% 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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Vandalism stands out most, at 2.0 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Manchester 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 Manchester
The middle half of Manchester residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 31 and 140; the typical (median) resident's is 52. The citywide figure (105) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5044.9%
- 50–10021.5%
- 100–20021.8%
- 200–4008.7%
- 400+3.1%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 3.8% in a year; across New Hampshire it fell 7.8%
Change in expected crimes, with New Hampshire as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.
Manchester against U.S. places with 100,000 to 250,000 residents
145 of the 268 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Manchester; the middle of the group is 109. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Manchester 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, Pinardville (3 mi), is 52% below Manchester's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Manchester
What are the most common crimes in Manchester?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 737 a year), theft from vehicle (about 404 a year) and shoplifting (about 349 a year). Compared with the U.S., vandalism stands out most: 2.0 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. Manchester's figures add up its 96 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Manchester's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 26.6% 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: 117,329. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Manchester, New Hampshire." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nh/manchester
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Pinardville3 mi51
- South Hooksett4 mi27
- Hooksett7 mi36
- East Merrimack8 mi34
- Derry10 mi45
- Suncook10 mi33
- Londonderry11 mi36
- Milford15 mi26