Crime in Ballenger Creek, Maryland
Major crime in Ballenger Creek is 21% below the U.S. rate per resident: 38% lower for persons crimes and 17% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 11.4% 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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Shoplifting stands out most, at 45% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Ballenger Creek 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
How crime varies across Ballenger Creek
The middle half of Ballenger Creek residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 23 and 73; the typical (median) resident's is 28. The citywide figure (79) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5060.2%
- 50–10028.6%
- 100–2009.0%
- 200–4000.0%
- 400+2.2%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 11.4% 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.
Ballenger Creek against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
466 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Ballenger Creek; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Ballenger Creek has a higher major-crime index than 7 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Frederick (4 mi), is 12% above Ballenger Creek's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Ballenger Creek
What are the most common crimes in Ballenger Creek?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 136 a year), other larceny (about 118 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 46 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 45% above 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. Ballenger Creek's figures add up its 16 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Ballenger Creek has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 46.1% 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: 29,338. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Ballenger Creek, Maryland." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/md/ballenger-creek
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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