What is the crime rate in Kittery, ME?

In 2025, the Kittery Police Department reported 3 violent crimes and 119 property crimes to the FBI.

That is 26 violent and 1,050 property crimes per 100,000 of the 11,328 residents it serves.

Across Maine the rates were 95 and 961.

Nationally they were 330 and 1,552.

Figures last updated on November 12, 2026.

Violent per 100,000: 26
Property per 100,000: 1,050
Violent crimes: 3
Property crimes: 119

Crime reported by the Kittery Police Department, 2023 to 2025

Offenses known to law enforcement, reported to the FBI; rates per 100,000 residents of the area the department serves
Year	Violent crimes	Violent per 100,000	Property crimes	Property per 100,000	Residents served
2023	1	10	125	1,212	10,314
2024	6	54	131	1,188	11,031
2025	3	26	119	1,050	11,328

Violent crimes reported went from 1 in 2023 to 3 in 2025.

Property crimes reported went from 125 in 2023 to 119 in 2025.

In a small town a handful of incidents moves these numbers a long way, so one year’s change says little on its own.

Kittery against Maine and the nation

Crimes per 100,000 residents, 2025
	Violent crime	Property crime
Kittery	26	1,050
York County	95	877
Maine	95	961
United States	330	1,552

These are rates per resident; they are not adjusted for visitors, commuters or the size of the area, which raise or lower a town’s figures without changing anybody’s risk.

Crime reported in places near Kittery, 2025

Each place’s own police department; rates per 100,000 residents served
Place	Distance	Violent per 100,000	Property per 100,000
Kittery	—	26	1,050
Rye	6.1 mi	35	264
New Castle	6.9 mi	100	100
Portsmouth	9.7 mi	207	1,140
York	11 mi	56	441
North Hampton	12 mi	22	573
Greenland	12 mi	0	967
Hampton	12 mi	79	685
Eliot	13 mi	13	157

Neighboring departments count the same offenses the same way, but their areas, populations and visitors differ, so a difference between two towns is a starting point for a question, not an answer.

How to read these numbers

These are offenses known to the police and reported to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program: crimes nobody reported, or that a department did not record, are not in them.

Violent crime is murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, rape, robbery and aggravated assault; property crime is burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft and arson.

A department reports the crimes in the area it polices, which can differ from the town’s boundaries, and the FBI estimates the population it serves.

The FBI asks that these figures not be used to rank places or to judge how safe a neighborhood is: crime depends on many local factors, and the counts describe a whole town, not any street or home.

A year is shown only when the department reported all twelve months.

FBI: Uniform Crime Reporting statistics and their proper use

The figures for Kittery include the places inside it that have pages of their own: Kittery (community).

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