County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
At 152,199 residents, Penobscot County is a large county in Maine. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Data updated 2026-08-24
Penobscot County, ME reported 13 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Penobscot County, ME agencies reported 20 violent and 294 property offenses. That equals about 13 violent and 193 property crimes per 100,000 using a verified Census population join. Table 10 coverage is a voluntary subset of U.S. counties.
Small-count caution
Penobscot County reported 20 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 152,199. 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 13.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Penobscot County ranks 15 of 16 — above 1 of the 15 other Maine counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -39.2% against the cohort median of 21.6. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 6.4% of the 314 Part I offenses reported in Penobscot County for 2024, against a median of 11.2% across comparable Maine counties — a gap of 4.9 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.
On a large county row, county figures aggregate every participating agency inside the county. Participation is voluntary. Per-100,000 rates use a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census county population, never a Table 10 field; unmatched counties stay count-only. A large county line encloses very different communities.
| Category | Count |
|---|---|
| Property Crime | 294 |
| Burglary | 41 |
| Larceny-Theft | 210 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 43 |
| Arson | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 20 |
| Murder | 0 |
| Rape | 4 |
| Robbery | 1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 15 |
Penobscot County's crime figures on this page originate from Penobscot 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.
A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the Maine counties closest to Penobscot County in population. Their populations run from 57,777 to 211,972, against 152,199 here. Or launch the side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two jurisdictions directly.
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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.
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