Crime in District Heights, Maryland
Major crime in District Heights is 24% below the U.S. rate per resident: 15% lower for persons crimes and 25% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 11.9% 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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Motor vehicle theft stands out most, at 2.2 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in District Heights 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 District Heights
The middle half of District Heights residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 30 and 103; the typical (median) resident's is 72.
- 0–5026.3%
- 50–10036.1%
- 100–20037.5%
- 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 weekend daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 11.9% 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.
District Heights against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
847 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than District Heights; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
District Heights has a lower major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Forestville (1 mi), is 4.7 times District Heights's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in District Heights
What are the most common crimes in District Heights?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are theft from vehicle (about 24 a year), motor vehicle theft (about 21 a year) and aggravated assault (about 13 a year). Compared with the U.S., motor vehicle theft stands out most: 2.2 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. District Heights's figures add up its 5 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- District Heights has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 0.0% 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: 6,141. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in District Heights, Maryland." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/md/district-heights
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Forestville1 mi361
- Walker Mill1 mi123
- Suitland2 mi142
- Capitol Heights2 mi90
- Coral Hills2 mi165
- Seat Pleasant3 mi139
- Summerfield3 mi124
- Silver Hill3 mi176