Crime in Ocean City, Maryland
Major crime in Ocean City is 4.8 times the U.S. rate per resident: 2.6 times for persons crimes and 5.3 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.6% 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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Simple assault stands out most, at 10.6 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Ocean City 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 Ocean City
The middle half of Ocean City residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 222 and 535; the typical (median) resident's is 491.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–1008.3%
- 100–2009.2%
- 200–40030.7%
- 400+51.8%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on Friday and Saturday nights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 7.6% 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.
Ocean City against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
1 of the 2,163 other places of this size has a higher major-crime index than Ocean City; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Ocean City 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, Ocean Pines (5 mi), is 95% below Ocean City's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Ocean City
What are the most common crimes in Ocean City?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 349 a year), shoplifting (about 61 a year) and burglary (about 48 a year). Compared with the U.S., simple assault stands out most: 10.6 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. Ocean City's figures add up its 13 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Ocean City has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 0.0% 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: 6,980. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Ocean City, Maryland." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/md/ocean-city
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Ocean Pines5 mi22
- West Ocean City5 mi75
- Berlin10 mi45
- Long Neck, DE16 mi67
- Millsboro, DE17 mi147
- Lewes, DE26 mi50
- Georgetown, DE26 mi279
- Delmar27 mi44