Crime in Fort Washington, Maryland
Major crime in Fort Washington is 52% below the U.S. rate per resident: 58% lower for persons crimes and 51% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 20.0% 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.
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Murder stands out most, at 19% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Fort Washington 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 Washington
The middle half of Fort Washington residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 19 and 59; the typical (median) resident's is 30. The citywide figure (48) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5067.8%
- 50–10012.3%
- 100–20019.9%
- 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 weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 20.0% 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.
Fort Washington against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
1,555 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Fort Washington; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Fort Washington 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, Fort Hunt (3 mi), is 41% below Fort Washington's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Fort Washington
What are the most common crimes in Fort Washington?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are theft from vehicle (about 46 a year), motor vehicle theft (about 43 a year) and shoplifting (about 33 a year). Compared with the U.S., murder stands out most: 19% 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 Washington's figures add up its 13 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Fort Washington's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 43.6% 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: 24,368. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Fort Washington, Maryland." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/md/fort-washington
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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