Crime in North Kensington, Maryland
Major crime in North Kensington is 37% below the U.S. rate per resident: 63% lower for persons crimes and 31% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 13.1% 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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Theft from vehicle stands out most, at 1.7 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in North Kensington 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 North Kensington
The middle half of North Kensington residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 50 and 71; the typical (median) resident's is 71.
- 0–5030.1%
- 50–10069.9%
- 100–2000.0%
- 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 weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 13.1% 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.
North Kensington against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
1,080 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than North Kensington; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
North Kensington has a lower major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Wheaton (1 mi), is 2.4 times North Kensington's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in North Kensington
What are the most common crimes in North Kensington?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are theft from vehicle (about 39 a year), shoplifting (about 16 a year) and motor vehicle theft (about 13 a year). Compared with the U.S., theft from vehicle stands out most: 1.7 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. North Kensington's figures add up its 6 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- North Kensington's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 25.3% 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: 8,838. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in North Kensington, Maryland." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/md/north-kensington
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Wheaton1 mi149
- Forest Glen2 mi66
- North Bethesda2 mi115
- Glenmont2 mi86
- Kemp Mill3 mi69
- Chevy Chase3 mi68
- Aspen Hill3 mi76
- Four Corners3 mi109