Crime in Shady Side, Maryland
Major crime in Shady Side is 30% below the U.S. rate per resident: 28% lower for persons crimes and 30% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 13.3% 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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No crime type in Shady Side is more than 10% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Shady Side 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
Neighborhoods in Shady Side
Shady Side is made up of 4 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 64; the middle half of residents live where it is between 47 and 100.
- 0–5047.7%
- 50–10021.0%
- 100–20031.3%
- 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 weekend daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 13.3% 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.
Shady Side against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
951 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Shady Side; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Shady Side 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, Deale (2 mi), is 19% above Shady Side's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Shady Side
What are the most common crimes in Shady Side?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are theft from vehicle (about 17 a year), other larceny (about 16 a year) and aggravated assault (about 10 a year). Compared with the U.S., theft from vehicle stands out most: 10% above 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. Shady Side's figures add up its 4 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Shady Side has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 100.0% 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: 5,699. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Shady Side, Maryland." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/md/shady-side
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Deale2 mi84
- Mayo5 mi51
- Edgewater8 mi110
- Annapolis Neck8 mi50
- Annapolis10 mi140
- Chesapeake Beach10 mi32
- Parole11 mi278
- Brock Hall12 mi34