Crime in Chevy Chase, Maryland
Major crime in Chevy Chase is 32% below the U.S. rate per resident: 76% lower for persons crimes and 23% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 13.9% 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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Theft from vehicle stands out most, at 2.0 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Chevy Chase 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 Chevy Chase
The middle half of Chevy Chase residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 54 and 76; the typical (median) resident's is 69.
- 0–5023.6%
- 50–10070.8%
- 100–2005.6%
- 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 13.9% 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.
Chevy Chase against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
1,156 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Chevy Chase; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Chevy Chase 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, Bethesda (2 mi), is 21% above Chevy Chase's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Chevy Chase
What are the most common crimes in Chevy Chase?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are theft from vehicle (about 60 a year), other larceny (about 26 a year) and motor vehicle theft (about 17 a year). Compared with the U.S., theft from vehicle stands out most: 2.0 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. Chevy Chase's figures add up its 9 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Chevy Chase's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 20.4% 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: 11,367. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Chevy Chase, Maryland." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/md/chevy-chase
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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