County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
Lincoln County, ME
Lincoln County (35,237 people) sits in the mid-size county band in Maine. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.
Lincoln County, ME reported 77 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Lincoln County, ME agencies reported 27 violent and 92 property offenses. That equals about 77 violent and 261 property crimes per 100,000 using a verified Census population join. Table 10 coverage is a voluntary subset of U.S. counties.
2024 UCR year
27 violent offenses
77/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Lincoln County, ME
Position in the state cohort
Lincoln County reported the highest violent-crime rate among comparable Maine counties
At 76.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Lincoln County ranks 1 of 16 — above 15 of the 15 other Maine counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +288.9% against the cohort median of 19.7. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Small-count caution
The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable
Lincoln County reported 27 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 35,237. 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 22.7% of the 119 Part I offenses reported in Lincoln County for 2024, against a median of 9.9% across comparable Maine counties — a gap of 12.8 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window close to where it started
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 76.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 76.6 in 2024 (+0.0%). The highest observed value was 76.6 in 2020 and the lowest 34.1 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Mid-size county rows still aggregate voluntary UCR submissions. Per-100,000 rates need a matched 2020 Census population; unmatched stay count-only. County-wide totals rarely describe any single town inside the line.
Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · mid-size county
Category
Count
Property Crime
92
Burglary
15
Larceny-Theft
72
Motor Vehicle Theft
5
Arson
2
Violent Crime
27
Murder
0
Rape
10
Robbery
0
Aggravated Assault
17
Reporting Agency
Lincoln County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Lincoln County's crime figures on this page originate from Lincoln County Sheriff's Office's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
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.
Similar-Size Counties in Maine
A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the Maine counties closest to Lincoln County in population. Their populations run from 29,456 to 40,607, against 35,237 here. Or launch the
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Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Crime in the United States (CIUS) Table 10.
FBI Table 10 supplies county offense counts but no resident population. Where this page shows a per-100,000 rate, the denominator is a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census Bureau county population; unmatched county rows remain count-only. Statewide comparisons draw on the state UCR program. Verify with FBI.gov UCR and Census.gov QuickFacts.