Crime in Nashua, New Hampshire
Major crime in Nashua is 44% below the U.S. rate per resident: 59% lower for persons crimes and 41% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 15.8% 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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Rape / sexual assault stands out most, at 46% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Nashua 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 Nashua
The middle half of Nashua residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 18 and 55; the typical (median) resident's is 32. The citywide figure (56) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5073.3%
- 50–10014.1%
- 100–2007.8%
- 200–4003.3%
- 400+1.5%
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 15.8% 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.
Nashua against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
445 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Nashua; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Nashua 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, Hudson (3 mi), is 2.1 times Nashua's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Nashua
What are the most common crimes in Nashua?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 336 a year), shoplifting (about 266 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 93 a year). Compared with the U.S., rape / sexual assault stands out most: 46% above 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. Nashua's figures add up its 66 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Nashua has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 11.1% 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: 92,892. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Nashua, New Hampshire." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nh/nashua
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Hudson3 mi117
- East Merrimack9 mi34
- Londonderry9 mi36
- Milford10 mi26
- Lowell, MA11 mi98
- Derry13 mi45
- Ayer, MA14 mi55
- Methuen Town, MA15 mi50