Crime in South Laurel, Maryland
Major crime in South Laurel is 16% above the U.S. rate per resident: 28% lower for persons crimes and 26% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 18.1% 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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Motor vehicle theft stands out most, at 3.7 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in South Laurel 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 South Laurel
The middle half of South Laurel residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 68 and 110; the typical (median) resident's is 93. The citywide figure (116) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5010.9%
- 50–10061.6%
- 100–20014.7%
- 200–4007.1%
- 400+5.7%
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 18.1% 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.
South Laurel against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
232 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than South Laurel; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
South Laurel 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, Laurel (2 mi), is 1.7 times South Laurel's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in South Laurel
What are the most common crimes in South Laurel?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are theft from vehicle (about 189 a year), motor vehicle theft (about 188 a year) and shoplifting (about 89 a year). Compared with the U.S., motor vehicle theft stands out most: 3.7 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. South Laurel's figures add up its 16 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- South Laurel's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 69.9% 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: 31,638. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in South Laurel, Maryland." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/md/south-laurel
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Laurel2 mi196
- Maryland City3 mi126
- North Laurel4 mi66
- Beltsville5 mi95
- Greenbelt5 mi201
- Burtonsville5 mi96
- Calverton5 mi145
- Fairland5 mi106