Crime in Wildewood, Maryland
Major crime in Wildewood is 55% below the U.S. rate per resident: 60% lower for persons crimes and 54% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 1.6% 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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Every crime type in Wildewood is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Wildewood 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 Wildewood
Wildewood is made up of 3 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 26.
- 0–5078.0%
- 50–1000.0%
- 100–20022.0%
- 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.
Lowest on Friday and Saturday nights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime rose 1.6% 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.
Wildewood against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
1,485 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Wildewood; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Wildewood has a higher major-crime index than 2 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, California (4 mi), is 3.5 times Wildewood's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Wildewood
What are the most common crimes in Wildewood?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 21 a year), theft from vehicle (about 12 a year) and aggravated assault (about 8 a year). Compared with the U.S., simple assault stands out most: about 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. Wildewood's figures add up its 3 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Wildewood's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 22.0% 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: 7,530. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Wildewood, Maryland." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/md/wildewood
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