CrimeMetric

Crime in Perryville, Maryland

Major crime in Perryville is 22% below the U.S. rate per resident: 27% lower for persons crimes and 21% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.8% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
78
22% below the U.S. rate
33% below the Maryland rate
down 8.8% in a year
Persons crimes
73
27% below the U.S. rate
30% below the Maryland rate
down 4.3% in a year
Property crimes
79
21% below the U.S. rate
33% below the Maryland rate
down 9.7% in a year
Social disorder
128
28% above the U.S. rate
42% above the Maryland rate
down 7.1% 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

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

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

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

Neighborhoods in Perryville

Perryville is made up of 3 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 73; the middle half of residents live where it is between 73 and 88.

Map of Perryville, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the key's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–500.0%
  • 50–100100.0%
  • 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.

When it happens

Lowest on Friday and Saturday nights

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

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm79
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am80
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm79
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am73
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 8.8% in a year; across Maryland it fell 10.0%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-8.8%MD -10.0%-11.1%MD -12.7%
Persons crimes-4.3%MD -9.9%+1.7%MD -5.4%
Property crimes-9.7%MD -10.0%-13.7%MD -14.1%
Social disorder-7.1%MD -7.6%-4.3%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

Perryville against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents

818 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Perryville; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:

St. John, MO5,642124
Sonora, CA5,640109
Perryville, MD5,63678
Alva, OK5,64051

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

Nearby places

Perryville 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, Havre de Grace (3 mi), is 12% below Perryville's rate.

Elkton14 mi212
Aberdeen7 mi117
Bel Air15 mi80
Perryville78
Riverside11 mi54
Oxford, PA16 mi48

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

Questions about crime in Perryville

What are the most common crimes in Perryville?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 31 a year), shoplifting (about 13 a year) and aggravated assault (about 10 a year). Compared with the U.S., simple assault 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. Perryville's figures add up its 3 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Perryville 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: 5,636. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100