North Berwick, ME has a A safety grade (81/100) with a violent crime rate of 171 per 100,000, 52% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
North Berwick is a small municipal reporter (5,275 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with ME and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
North Berwick, ME carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 52% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, North Berwick, ME shows violent crime at 170.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 284.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 52% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade A from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 63.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 170.6 in 2024 (+169.8%). The highest observed value was 170.6 in 2024 and the lowest 42.0 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 37.5% of the 24 Part I offenses reported in North Berwick for 2024, against a median of 5.6% across comparable Maine cities — a gap of 31.9 points. Offense mix is shaped by which agencies report and how incidents are classified as well as by the underlying offenses, so it describes the reported record rather than a settled difference in conditions.
Small-count caution
North Berwick reported 9 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 5,275. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Position in the state cohort
At 170.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, North Berwick ranks 10 of 101 — above 91 of the 100 other Maine cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +193.0% 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 North Berwick's 170.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Westbrook (174.7), Rumford (165.7), Bangor (161.4), Sanford (156.6). 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.
Property counts dominate North Berwick'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.
Based on 9 reported violent incidents in a population of 5,275. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Across 3.4 Census sq mi, North Berwick logged 4.4 property and 2.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
North Berwick leans on larceny-theft at 50% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,368.
Violent offenses are 38% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a small city.
North Berwick offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (3.4 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 | 15 | 284.4 |
| Larceny-Theft | 12 | 227.5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 2 | 37.9 |
| Burglary | 1 | 19 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 9 | 170.6 |
| Rape | 6 | 113.7 |
| Aggravated Assault | 3 | 56.9 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 4,744 | 63.2 | 695.6 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 4,762 | 42 | 441 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 5,163 | 96.8 | 387.4 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 5,233 | 57.3 | 324.9 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 5,275 | 170.6 | 284.4 |
North Berwick Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind North Berwick's 24 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 North Berwick in population. Their populations run from 4,872 to 5,772, against 5,275 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
In 2024, North Berwick reported 9 violent crimes and 15 property crimes, for a total of 24 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, North Berwick's violent crime rate increased by 197.7%, and the property crime rate decreased by 12.5%.
The most common crime type in North Berwick is larceny-theft, accounting for 50.0% of all reported crimes (12 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: North Berwick is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how North Berwick's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 North Berwick, ME rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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