Crime in Walkersville, Maryland
Major crime in Walkersville is 51% below the U.S. rate per resident: 66% lower for persons crimes and 47% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 11.1% 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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No crime type in Walkersville is more than 10% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Walkersville 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 Walkersville
Walkersville is made up of 4 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 62; the middle half of residents live where it is between 29 and 75.
- 0–5045.3%
- 50–10054.7%
- 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.
Highest on weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 11.1% 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.
Walkersville against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
1,378 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Walkersville; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Walkersville has a higher major-crime index than 6 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Spring Ridge (5 mi), is 44% below Walkersville's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Walkersville
What are the most common crimes in Walkersville?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 24 a year), other larceny (about 16 a year) and aggravated assault (about 6 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting 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. Walkersville's figures add up its 4 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Walkersville 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: 6,840. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Walkersville, Maryland." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/md/walkersville
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Spring Ridge5 mi28
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