CrimeMetric

Crime in Odenton, Maryland

Major crime in Odenton is 7% below the U.S. rate per resident: 40% lower for persons crimes and about the same for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 13.4% from a year earlier.

Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this

Major crime
93
7% below the U.S. rate
20% below the Maryland rate
down 13.4% in a year
Persons crimes
60
40% below the U.S. rate
43% below the Maryland rate
down 12.8% in a year
Property crimes
101
about the U.S. rate
15% below the Maryland rate
down 13.5% in a year
Social disorder
57
43% below the U.S. rate
36% below the Maryland rate
down 12.1% in a year

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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Crime by type

Shoplifting stands out most, at 1.8 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Odenton for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

How crime varies across Odenton

The middle half of Odenton residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 29 and 120; the typical (median) resident's is 51. The citywide figure (93) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Odenton, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the bar's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Tap one to compare it. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5047.9%
  • 50–10023.6%
  • 100–20022.3%
  • 200–4000.0%
  • 400+6.2%

Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.

When it happens

Highest on weekend daytimes

Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm99
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am85
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm105
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am82
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 13.4% in a year; across Maryland it fell 10.0%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-13.4%MD -10.0%-12.4%MD -12.7%
Persons crimes-12.8%MD -9.9%-1.8%MD -5.4%
Property crimes-13.5%MD -10.0%-13.8%MD -14.1%
Social disorder-12.1%MD -7.6%-4.2%MD -6.6%

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.

Similar-size places

Odenton against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents

364 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Odenton; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:

Sumter, SC44,186185
Littleton, CO43,995133
Odenton, MD44,06893
Tooele, UT44,00782
Freeport, NY44,14054

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.

Nearby places

Odenton has a higher major-crime index than 5 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Fort Meade (4 mi), is 39% below Odenton's rate.

Severn4 mi102
Odenton93
Jessup6 mi61
Crofton4 mi50

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.

Questions about crime in Odenton

What are the most common crimes in Odenton?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 258 a year), theft from vehicle (about 143 a year) and other larceny (about 121 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 1.8 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. Odenton's figures add up its 20 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Odenton has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
  • 73.6% 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: 44,068. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Odenton, Maryland." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/md/odenton

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100