Crime in Lake Shore, Maryland
Major crime in Lake Shore is 18% below the U.S. rate per resident: 36% lower for persons crimes and 14% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 13.2% 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 Lake Shore 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 Lake Shore
The middle half of Lake Shore residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 44 and 77; the typical (median) resident's is 57. The citywide figure (82) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5031.8%
- 50–10045.2%
- 100–20014.8%
- 200–4008.2%
- 400+0.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest in the daytime
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 13.2% 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.
Lake Shore against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
931 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Lake Shore; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Lake Shore has a higher major-crime index than 3 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Riviera Beach (4 mi), is 1.5 times Lake Shore's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Lake Shore
What are the most common crimes in Lake Shore?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 86 a year), theft from vehicle (about 53 a year) and other larceny (about 48 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. Lake Shore's figures add up its 11 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Lake Shore has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 94.5% 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: 18,953. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Lake Shore, Maryland." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/md/lake-shore
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Riviera Beach4 mi125
- Pasadena4 mi96
- Severna Park4 mi72
- Arnold4 mi51
- Cape St. Claire5 mi52
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- Edgemere9 mi149
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