Crime in Ellicott City, Maryland
Major crime in Ellicott City is 36% below the U.S. rate per resident: 72% lower for persons crimes and 27% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 18.4% 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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Every crime type in Ellicott City is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Ellicott City 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 Ellicott City
The middle half of Ellicott City residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 27 and 96; the typical (median) resident's is 50. The citywide figure (65) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5051.6%
- 50–10032.9%
- 100–20012.3%
- 200–4003.2%
- 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 weekdays, day and night
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 18.4% 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.
Ellicott City against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
401 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Ellicott City; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Ellicott City 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, Woodlawn (5 mi), is 2.9 times Ellicott City's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Ellicott City
What are the most common crimes in Ellicott City?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 233 a year), theft from vehicle (about 180 a year) and other larceny (about 178 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: about 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. Ellicott City's figures add up its 38 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Ellicott City has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 42.3% 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: 73,819. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Ellicott City, Maryland." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/md/ellicott-city
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Woodlawn5 mi188
- Columbia5 mi104
- Catonsville5 mi127
- Ilchester5 mi41
- Milford Mill6 mi125
- Randallstown7 mi117
- Lochearn7 mi89
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