Crime in Damascus, Maryland
Major crime in Damascus is 62% below the U.S. rate per resident: 67% lower for persons crimes and 61% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 13.0% 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.
Check an address in Damascus
Every crime type in Damascus is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Damascus 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 Damascus
The middle half of Damascus residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 17 and 37; the typical (median) resident's is 19. The citywide figure (38) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5079.4%
- 50–10014.3%
- 100–2006.3%
- 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 13.0% 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.
Damascus against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
1,788 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Damascus; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Damascus has a higher major-crime index than 1 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Clarksburg (4 mi), is 24% above Damascus's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Damascus
What are the most common crimes in Damascus?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are theft from vehicle (about 32 a year), other larceny (about 23 a year) and motor vehicle theft (about 20 a year). Compared with the U.S., rape / sexual assault stands out most: 26% 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. Damascus's figures add up its 9 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Damascus's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 48.0% 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: 18,214. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Damascus, Maryland." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/md/damascus
Use these numbers in your product
Any U.S. address by API or MCP, free for 10,000 lookups a month.
Get a free API keyNearest cities we publish
Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Clarksburg4 mi47
- Green Valley6 mi27
- Montgomery Village6 mi76
- Flower Hill7 mi47
- Germantown7 mi112
- Mount Airy8 mi56
- Redland9 mi54
- Gaithersburg9 mi64