Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Fort Kent reports less crime per resident than nine in ten U.S. towns
Violent crime here is lower than in 88% of U.S. towns; property crime, lower than in 85%. What’s more, from 2023 to 2025, crimes Fort Kent’s police reported put it at A for safety: #13 of 78 graded towns in Maine. Police counts work out at 0.4 violent crime and 4.0 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents annually; in the rest of Maine they are 1.2 and 13.6. Per resident, the graded crimes were up 58% from 2023 to 2025.
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. “Rest of ME” is every other Maine city and town in the FBI’s tables; the U.S. figure is the FBI’s national estimate as published, averaged over the three years. The FBI publishes no national homicide or robbery rate in our data, so those compare with all U.S. cities and towns in its tables.
What stands out about safety in Fort Kent
A college town
Fort Kent is home to the University of Maine at Fort Kent, with 851 students taking classes on campus (federal college data), and 10% of residents are enrolled in college (Census). Students who live in town count as residents, so they are part of the per-resident rate. How to read it ↓
Reported crime is rising
Crime reported per resident rose from 2023 to 2025 by more than ordinary year-to-year swings, on the grade’s own score. Trend ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Fort Kent’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Both violent and property crime are lower than in most U.S. towns; violent crime is the stronger of the two.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Fort Kent property | Rest of Maine property | Fort Kent violent | Rest of Maine violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5.8 | 15.5 | 0.5 | 1.2 |
| 2023 | 3.6 | 14.1 | 0.0 | 1.2 |
| 2024 | 3.5 | 14.6 | 0.2 | 1.1 |
| 2025 | 4.8 | 12.1 | 1.0 | 1.1 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident rose from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of Maine.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Fort Kent | Rest of Maine | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 0.5 | 1.2 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 0.0 | 1.2 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 0.2 | 1.1 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Fort Kent’s police reported 5 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.4 per 1,000 residents a year, against 1.2 in the rest of Maine and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Crime in Fort Kent per 1,000 residents
Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Crimes reported to police in 2025 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.
And about 1 violent crime, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
24 crimes reported in 2025
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
4 violent and 20 property, as reported to the FBI by Fort Kent’s police.
Four people died in crashes on Fort Kent’s roads in 2019–2023
Fort Kent had 4 fatal crashes in five years, in which four people died.
That is about what is typical for Maine towns of 2,500–5,000 people: at their median rate (8.4 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Fort Kent’s size would see about 2 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Fort Kent’s own rate (19.3) is context, not a ranking.
Deaths are counted where the crash happened, not where the people lived: a highway through town adds through-traffic deaths, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Town rates sit below state and U.S. rates because a third of fatal crashes happen outside any town. Road safety is described here and is not part of the Safety Grade. Source: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023.
Fort Kent and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Kent | A | 0.4 | 4.0 |
| Frenchville | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Frenchville has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025.
Maine towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Kent | A | 0.4 | 4.0 |
| Monmouth | A+ | 0.1 | 1.7 |
| Dexter | B+ | 0.7 | 8.9 |
| Wilton | B+ | 1.6 | 6.3 |
| Wiscasset | B+ | 1.3 | 7.9 |
| Oxford | C− | 0.7 | 35.7 |
The five graded Maine towns closest to Fort Kent’s population (4,151), by grade.
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- It’s reported crime. Only incidents reported to and recorded by police appear here. Many crimes are never reported to police.
- One number for all of Fort Kent. A town-wide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of town to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Fort Kent’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (4,182 in 2025); our figure for Fort Kent is 4,151 (2025 Census estimate).
- Gaps are real gaps. A missing year means the department didn’t report a full year, not that nothing happened.
How the grade is calculated, for every town: How TownRatings grades safety →
Questions about safety in Fort Kent
Is Fort Kent, ME safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Fort Kent reports less crime per resident than 90% of U.S. towns, an A Safety Grade and #13 of 78 in Maine. Its police reported 0.4 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 1.2 in the rest of Maine and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Fort Kent?
0.4 violent and 4.0 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Maine reports 1.2 and 13.6; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Who polices Fort Kent?
Fort Kent’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Fort Kent”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
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Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 2025, and state and national rates. Counts are crimes reported to police, not convictions. The Safety Grade is our own summary of that data, not an official rating. Road deaths: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023. This isn’t an official statement of public safety. In an emergency, call 911.