Crime in Gaithersburg, Maryland
Major crime in Gaithersburg is 36% below the U.S. rate per resident: 41% lower for persons crimes and 35% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 14.7% 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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Shoplifting stands out most, at 42% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Gaithersburg 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 Gaithersburg
The middle half of Gaithersburg residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 16 and 48; the typical (median) resident's is 28. The citywide figure (64) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5076.4%
- 50–10010.8%
- 100–2008.4%
- 200–4004.0%
- 400+0.3%
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 14.7% 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.
Gaithersburg against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
404 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Gaithersburg; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Gaithersburg has a higher major-crime index than 4 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Flower Hill (3 mi), is 27% below Gaithersburg's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Gaithersburg
What are the most common crimes in Gaithersburg?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 320 a year), other larceny (about 121 a year) and aggravated assault (about 83 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 42% 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. Gaithersburg's figures add up its 40 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Gaithersburg's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 49.7% 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: 70,650. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Gaithersburg, Maryland." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/md/gaithersburg
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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- Redland3 mi54
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