Samuel Penney House · Photo: Jehosafatarmbender · CC BY-SA 3.0Per resident, Mechanic Falls records about as much crime as the typical place among U.S. towns
Annual rates stand at 1.5 violent crimes and 9.3 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 1.1 and 13.6 in the rest of Maine. All told, Mechanic Falls grades B for safety (#55 of 78 graded towns in Maine): close to the middle of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported 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 Mechanic Falls
Mechanic Falls reports less crime than every graded town next door
Of the 3 Maine towns on Mechanic Falls’ borders, 1 have a Safety Grade: Oxford (C−). Poland and Minot have no FBI figures of their own for 2023–2025. Neighbors ↓
Among Maine towns, closer to the middle
Maine’s cities and towns report less crime than most states’, so Mechanic Falls’ place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 29% of the 78 Maine towns we grade, against 58% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Mechanic Falls’ 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; property crime is the stronger of the two.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Mechanic Falls | Rest of Maine | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1.3 | 1.2 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 2.2 | 1.1 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Mechanic Falls’ police reported 14 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 1.5 per 1,000 residents a year, against 1.1 in the rest of Maine and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Crime in Mechanic Falls 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.
Reported crime is steady
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| Year | Mechanic Falls property | Rest of Maine property | Mechanic Falls violent | Rest of Maine violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 9.3 | 15.5 | 1.3 | 1.2 |
| 2023 | 10.6 | 14.1 | 1.0 | 1.2 |
| 2024 | 6.0 | 14.6 | 2.2 | 1.1 |
| 2025 | 11.2 | 12.0 | 1.2 | 1.1 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident was steady from 2023 to 2025: the change is within ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of Maine.
40 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 36 property, as reported to the FBI by Mechanic Falls’ police.
No one died in a crash on Mechanic Falls’s roads in 2019–2023
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 Mechanic Falls’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Mechanic Falls’s own rate (0.0) 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.
Mechanic Falls and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanic Falls | B | 1.5 | 9.3 |
| Poland | — | — | — |
| Minot | — | — | — |
| Oxford | C− | 0.7 | 35.7 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Poland and Minot have no FBI figures of their own for 2023–2025.
Maine towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanic Falls | B | 1.5 | 9.3 |
| Holden | A | 0.2 | 4.8 |
| Clinton | A | 0.9 | 3.4 |
| Fort Fairfield | B+ | 1.7 | 5.0 |
| Newport | B | 0.4 | 13.5 |
| Livermore Falls | C | 1.9 | 19.8 |
The five graded Maine towns closest to Mechanic Falls’ population (3,286), 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 Mechanic Falls. 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 Mechanic Falls’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (3,218 in 2025); our figure for Mechanic Falls is 3,286 (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 Mechanic Falls
Is Mechanic Falls, ME safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Mechanic Falls reports less crime per resident than 58% of U.S. towns, a B Safety Grade and #55 of 78 in Maine. Its police reported 1.5 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 1.1 in the rest of Maine and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Mechanic Falls?
1.5 violent and 9.3 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Maine reports 1.1 and 13.6; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Is Mechanic Falls safer than Oxford?
Oxford reports more crime per resident than Mechanic Falls: Oxford grades C− for safety and Mechanic Falls B. Oxford’s police reported 0.7 violent and 35.7 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Mechanic Falls?
Mechanic Falls’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Mechanic Falls”. 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.