Crime in Pikesville, Maryland
Major crime in Pikesville is 35% above the U.S. rate per resident: 8% lower for persons crimes and 44% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 13.8% 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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Shoplifting stands out most, at 2.6 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Pikesville 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 Pikesville
The middle half of Pikesville residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 48 and 157; the typical (median) resident's is 83. The citywide figure (135) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5028.9%
- 50–10037.0%
- 100–20019.4%
- 200–4009.9%
- 400+4.8%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 13.8% 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.
Pikesville against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
169 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Pikesville; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Pikesville 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, Lochearn (3 mi), is 34% below Pikesville's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Pikesville
What are the most common crimes in Pikesville?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 284 a year), theft from vehicle (about 142 a year) and other larceny (about 136 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 2.6 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. Pikesville's figures add up its 23 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Pikesville has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 81.1% 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: 34,193. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Pikesville, Maryland." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/md/pikesville
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