Crime in Baltimore, Maryland
Major crime in Baltimore is 3.2 times the U.S. rate per resident: 4.3 times for persons crimes and 3.0 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 1.1% 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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Robbery stands out most, at 8.2 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Baltimore 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 Baltimore
The middle half of Baltimore residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 137 and 372; the typical (median) resident's is 228. The citywide figure (320) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–502.4%
- 50–1009.9%
- 100–20030.5%
- 200–40034.7%
- 400+22.4%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest at night
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime rose 1.1% 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.
Baltimore against U.S. places with 500,000 to 1 million residents
1 of the 25 other places of this size has a higher major-crime index than Baltimore; the middle of the group is 190. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Baltimore has a higher major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Towson (5 mi), is 42% below Baltimore's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Baltimore
What are the most common crimes in Baltimore?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 6,298 a year), theft from vehicle (about 6,216 a year) and aggravated assault (about 5,259 a year). Compared with the U.S., robbery stands out most: 8.2 times 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. Baltimore's figures add up its 618 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Baltimore's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 79.7% 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: 570,226. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Baltimore, Maryland." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/md/baltimore
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Towson5 mi187
- Baltimore Highlands5 mi105
- Lansdowne5 mi175
- Rosedale6 mi136
- Parkville6 mi153
- Overlea6 mi161
- Pikesville6 mi135
- Arbutus6 mi195