Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones the agency reported to the FBI, through 2025. The jail figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site between September 24, 2026 and October 2, 2026.
Concord, New Hampshire, in Merrimack County, has about 45,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and its arrests are reported to the FBI by an agency of its own. An arrest in the city leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the County Attorney files charges, a case in the Merrimack County Superior Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts the agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies and common questions.
Related guides: Concord public records, Merrimack County arrest records, New Hampshire arrest records and New Hampshire inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Concord
The FBI lists Concord with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Concord Police Department. It reported 2,012 arrests for 2025. A city is listed separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
Outside the city, the Merrimack County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 184 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Merrimack County: the Merrimack County State Police (state police).
How Many Arrests Concord Reports
The FBI publishes every agency's monthly arrest counts on the Crime Data Explorer. These are the full-year totals, all offenses, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026; a year with months missing or not reported is left out.
- Concord: 2,012 for 2025, 2,020 for 2024, 1,978 for 2023, 2,211 for 2022, 2,113 for 2021 and 1,847 for 2020.
Concord's 2,012 arrests in 2025 were down 0.4 percent from 2,020 in 2024.
Through July 2026, Concord reported 960 arrests, against 1,208 in the same months of 2025.
Across Merrimack County, the 25 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 4,159 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Concord Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Concord and kept in custody ends up, whichever agency made the arrest, though a city department may hold someone in its own cells first and a person cited and released at the scene is never booked. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and once the person is released or sentenced the record continues in the court file.
On an average day in 2024 the jail held about 190 people, up from about 170 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 275 beds, and it ran at 62 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the Merrimack County Sheriff's Office at merrimackcountysheriff.org (page title: Merrimack County Jail Roster Lookup, NH, Inmate Search), a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser.
That page is the place to look for someone who was booked recently; a person cited and released at the scene, or held only a few hours by a city department, will not be on it.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the New Hampshire Department of Corrections lists its inmates at business.nh.gov/inmate_locator.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Concord
An arrest in Concord can be traced in three places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Merrimack County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Merrimack County Superior Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at courts.nh.gov/your-visit/find-court/merrimack-superior-court, phone 855-212-1234); the County Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at merrimackcounty.net/departments/county_attorney/index.php, phone (603) 228-0529).
New Hampshire does not let the public search another person's statewide criminal history. The record kept by the New Hampshire State Police Criminal Records Unit goes to the person it belongs to and to employers and agencies the law authorizes; for everyone else the court's own case index is the public record of an arrest that led to a charge.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Concord
The report of an arrest is released by the agency that made it; the jail and the court hold their own records of the same event, but not the report. Under the New Hampshire Right-to-Know Law the agency must answer within 5 business days, and it may charge the actual cost of copying.
- An arrest by the Concord police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at concordnh.gov/848/Records-Division (page title: Records Division | Concord, NH), phone 603-225-8600, 35 Green St. Concord, NH 03301, Monday, and 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Merrimack County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the County Attorney, (603) 228-0529, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Merrimack County Superior Court, through the court records page at courts.nh.gov, phone 855-212-1234.
- Your own statewide record: a notarized request to the Criminal Records Unit.
The Merrimack County guide covers every agency in the county: Merrimack County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Concord each year?
Concord reported 2,012 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Concord booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Merrimack County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Concord?
The court files of criminal cases in the Merrimack County Superior Court are public and can be looked up through the court. The statewide criminal history kept by the New Hampshire State Police Criminal Records Unit is not public; you can get your own. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the New Hampshire Right-to-Know Law.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Concord?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Concord police for its own arrests, the Merrimack County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the New Hampshire Right-to-Know Law the answer is due within 5 business days.
Is this the official Concord website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official city, county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.