Crime in Ashton-Sandy Spring, Maryland
Major crime in Ashton-Sandy Spring is 54% below the U.S. rate per resident: 72% lower for persons crimes and 50% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 13.6% from a year earlier.
Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this
Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.
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Every crime type in Ashton-Sandy Spring is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Ashton-Sandy Spring for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Property crimes
Social disorder
Neighborhoods in Ashton-Sandy Spring
Ashton-Sandy Spring is made up of 3 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 38; the middle half of residents live where it is between 28 and 38.
- 0–5077.3%
- 50–10022.7%
- 100–2000.0%
- 200–4000.0%
- 400+0.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 13.6% in a year; across Maryland it fell 10.0%
Change in expected crimes, with Maryland as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.
Ashton-Sandy Spring against U.S. places with 2,000 to 5,000 residents
1,106 of the 1,761 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Ashton-Sandy Spring; the middle of the group is 58. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Ashton-Sandy Spring has a higher major-crime index than 2 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Cloverly (3 mi), is 19% below Ashton-Sandy Spring's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Ashton-Sandy Spring
What are the most common crimes in Ashton-Sandy Spring?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are theft from vehicle (about 11 a year), other larceny (about 11 a year) and motor vehicle theft (about 5 a year). Compared with the U.S., theft from vehicle stands out most: 8% below the U.S. rate per resident.
How we calculated this
Each police agency's crimes, as reported to the FBI, are spread across the census block groups it serves using population, jobs, points of interest and, where available, local incident records. Ashton-Sandy Spring's figures add up its 3 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Ashton-Sandy Spring's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 22.7% of residents live in block groups whose estimate has high confidence (80% interval within about 5x).
- Rates are per resident, so places where many people work or visit but few live, such as downtowns, airports and stadiums, can read high.
- Disorderly conduct and trespassing are modeled, because the FBI records them only through arrests.
- Residents: 4,590. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Ashton-Sandy Spring, Maryland." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/md/ashton-sandy-spring
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