Bangor, ME has a C safety grade (54/100) with a violent crime rate of 161 per 100,000, 54% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Bangor (31,598 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then ME and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Bangor, ME carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 54% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Bangor, ME shows violent crime at 161.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 4,237.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 54% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Position in the state cohort
At 161.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Bangor ranks 12 of 101 — above 89 of the 100 other Maine cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +177.2% against the cohort median of 58.2. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Bangor's 161.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Rumford (165.7), Sanford (156.6), North Berwick (170.6), Fort Fairfield (149.6). These are same-year agency submissions that pass the same completeness screen, not a claim that the cities have identical conditions. They make the cohort position above checkable against named records instead of a generic state average.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 158.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 161.4 in 2024 (+1.8%). The highest observed value was 197.5 in 2021 and the lowest 158.5 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Bangor's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; cities that fail the completeness test stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 34.3 Census sq mi, Bangor logged 39.1 property and 1.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Bangor's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (87% of 1,390 offenses; mix index 7,686).
Violent offenses are only 4% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Bangor offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (34.3 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 1,339 | 4237.6 |
| Larceny-Theft | 1,214 | 3842 |
| Burglary | 98 | 310.1 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 27 | 85.4 |
| Arson | 3 | 9.5 |
| Violent Crime | 51 | 161.4 |
| Aggravated Assault | 23 | 72.8 |
| Robbery | 16 | 50.6 |
| Rape | 7 | 22.2 |
| Murder | 5 | 15.8 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 32,179 | 158.5 | 3750.9 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 31,898 | 197.5 | 4602.2 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 32,078 | 165.2 | 4869.4 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 31,525 | 171.3 | 4028.5 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 31,598 | 161.4 | 4237.6 |
Bangor Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Bangor's 1,390 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
This agency reports via NIBRS, the incident-based system that captures more detail per offense (multiple crimes per incident, victim/offender data) than the older summary counts.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Maine cities closest to Bangor in population. Their populations run from 21,144 to 38,850, against 31,598 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Bangor sits at 161.4/100K violent (grade C); the Maine cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Bangor at 161.4/100K violent and 4,237.6/100K property - matched below outside Maine (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
161.4/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
4,237.6/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-5.8% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Bangor reported 51 violent crimes and 1,339 property crimes, for a total of 1,390 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Bangor's violent crime rate decreased by 5.8%, and the property crime rate increased by 5.2%.
The most common crime type in Bangor is larceny-theft, accounting for 87.3% of all reported crimes (1,214 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Bangor figures are FBI UCR CIUS Table 8 (vintage 2024), population-adjusted per 100,000.
Denominators are the reporting-year population on the municipal row. Incomplete years are dropped from rankings. Confirm at FBI Crime Data Explorer and Census.gov QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (mid-size municipal): figures are informational, not advice. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is the source. Consult a professional before decisions.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Bangor's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Bangor, ME rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Bangor is scored in the mid-size municipal band (31,598 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.