County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
Somerset County, ME
At 50,477 residents, Somerset County is a large county in Maine. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Somerset County, ME reported 73 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Somerset County, ME agencies reported 37 violent and 370 property offenses. That equals about 73 violent and 733 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
37 violent offenses
73/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Somerset County, ME
Position in the state cohort
Somerset County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Maine counties
At 73.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Somerset County ranks 2 of 16 — above 14 of the 15 other Maine counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +272.1% 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.
Share of the state cohort
Somerset County carries a large share of the reporting cohort’s total offenses
The 407 Part I offenses reported here are 15.1% of the 2,690 reported across all 16 comparable Maine counties in 2024. A county this large moves the statewide total on its own, so state-level changes should be read against its population of 50,477 rather than as a uniform shift.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 79.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 73.3 in 2024 (-7.5%). The highest observed value was 79.2 in 2020 and the lowest 41.6 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
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.
Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · large county
Category
Count
Property Crime
370
Burglary
49
Larceny-Theft
263
Motor Vehicle Theft
58
Arson
3
Violent Crime
37
Murder
0
Rape
13
Robbery
4
Aggravated Assault
20
Reporting Agency
Somerset County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Somerset County's crime figures on this page originate from Somerset 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 Somerset County in population. Their populations run from 36,699 to 57,777, against 50,477 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.