Crime in Mount Rainier, Maryland
Major crime in Mount Rainier is 31% above the U.S. rate per resident: 6% higher for persons crimes and 37% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 10.6% 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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Motor vehicle theft stands out most, at 3.7 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Mount Rainier 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 Mount Rainier
The middle half of Mount Rainier residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 92 and 119; the typical (median) resident's is 112.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–10031.8%
- 100–20044.7%
- 200–40023.5%
- 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 10.6% 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.
Mount Rainier against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
336 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Mount Rainier; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Mount Rainier 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, Hyattsville (1 mi), is 15% above Mount Rainier's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Mount Rainier
What are the most common crimes in Mount Rainier?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are theft from vehicle (about 62 a year), motor vehicle theft (about 55 a year) and shoplifting (about 28 a year). Compared with the U.S., motor vehicle theft stands out most: 3.7 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. Mount Rainier's figures add up its 8 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Mount Rainier's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 17.8% 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: 9,255. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Mount Rainier, Maryland." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/md/mount-rainier
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Hyattsville1 mi151
- Chillum2 mi181
- Riverdale Park2 mi127
- Bladensburg2 mi186
- East Riverdale3 mi90
- Cheverly3 mi129
- Langley Park3 mi75
- Takoma Park3 mi211