Crime in Greenbelt, Maryland
Major crime in Greenbelt is 2.0 times the U.S. rate per resident: 1.6 times for persons crimes and 2.1 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 9.5% 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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Robbery stands out most, at 4.1 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Greenbelt 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 Greenbelt
The middle half of Greenbelt residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 116 and 148; the typical (median) resident's is 131. The citywide figure (201) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–10013.2%
- 100–20075.9%
- 200–4008.5%
- 400+2.3%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest in the daytime
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 9.5% 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.
Greenbelt against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
49 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Greenbelt; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Greenbelt has a higher major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, College Park (3 mi), is 54% below Greenbelt's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Greenbelt
What are the most common crimes in Greenbelt?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are theft from vehicle (about 257 a year), shoplifting (about 207 a year) and motor vehicle theft (about 147 a year). Compared with the U.S., robbery stands out most: 4.1 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. Greenbelt's figures add up its 16 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Greenbelt's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 50.3% 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: 25,228. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Greenbelt, Maryland." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/md/greenbelt
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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