Crime in Fort Meade, Maryland
Major crime in Fort Meade is 43% below the U.S. rate per resident: 52% lower for persons crimes and 41% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 13.6% 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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No crime type in Fort Meade is more than 10% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Fort Meade 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 Fort Meade
The middle half of Fort Meade residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 55 and 74; the typical (median) resident's is 58.
- 0–5022.8%
- 50–10077.2%
- 100–2000.0%
- 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 13.6% 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.
Fort Meade against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
1,336 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Fort Meade; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Fort Meade 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, Jessup (3 mi), is 7% above Fort Meade's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Fort Meade
What are the most common crimes in Fort Meade?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are theft from vehicle (about 39 a year), other larceny (about 27 a year) and shoplifting (about 25 a year). Compared with the U.S., theft from vehicle stands out most: 6% above 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. Fort Meade's figures add up its 6 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Fort Meade has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 71.1% 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: 14,023. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Fort Meade, Maryland." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/md/fort-meade
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Jessup3 mi61
- Severn3 mi102
- Maryland City3 mi126
- Odenton4 mi93
- Savage5 mi58
- North Laurel5 mi66
- Elkridge5 mi76
- South Laurel6 mi116