Baltimore, MD has a F safety grade (0/100) with a violent crime rate of 1606 per 100,000, 356% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · very large city
At 566,632 residents, Baltimore is a very large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against MD and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Baltimore, MD is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 356% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Baltimore, MD shows violent crime at 1,606.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 4,157 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 356% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Share of the state cohort
The 32,656 Part I offenses reported here are 58.1% of the 56,169 reported across all 72 comparable Maryland cities in 2024. A city this large moves the statewide municipal total on its own, so state-level changes should be read against its population of 566,632 rather than as a uniform shift.
Position in the state cohort
At 1606.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Baltimore ranks 1 of 72 — above 71 of the 71 other Maryland cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +535.1% against the cohort median of 252.9. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Baltimore's 1606.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Princess Anne (1597.5), Fairmount Heights (1284.7), Morningside (1080.6), Elkton (1080.1). These are same-year agency submissions that pass the same completeness screen, not a claim that the cities have identical conditions. They make the cohort position above checkable against named records instead of a generic state average.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 27.9% of the 32,656 Part I offenses reported in Baltimore for 2024, against a median of 14.3% across comparable Maryland cities — a gap of 13.6 points. Offense mix is shaped by which agencies report and how incidents are classified as well as by the underlying offenses, so it describes the reported record rather than a settled difference in conditions.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 62.1% of reported property offenses in Baltimore, against a cohort median of 78.0%. The remainder is burglary (2,968) and motor vehicle theft (5,957). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 1596.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 1606.2 in 2024 (+0.6%). The highest observed value was 1709.4 in 2022 and the lowest 844.5 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Baltimore's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; cities that fail the completeness test stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
On a very large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Across 80.9 Census sq mi, Baltimore logged 291 property and 112.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Baltimore leans on larceny-theft at 45% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,789.
Violent offenses are 28% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Baltimore offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (80.9 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 23,555 | 4157 |
| Larceny-Theft | 14,630 | 2581.9 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 5,957 | 1051.3 |
| Burglary | 2,968 | 523.8 |
| Arson | 116 | 20.5 |
| Violent Crime | 9,101 | 1606.2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 5,330 | 940.6 |
| Robbery | 3,248 | 573.2 |
| Rape | 326 | 57.5 |
| Murder | 197 | 34.8 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 588,594 | 1596.7 | 3168.6 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 590,536 | 844.5 | 1394.2 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 570,546 | 1709.4 | 3400.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 565,192 | 1694.3 | 5159.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 566,632 | 1606.2 | 4157 |
Baltimore Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Baltimore's 32,656 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
This agency reports via NIBRS, the incident-based system that captures more detail per offense (multiple crimes per incident, victim/offender data) than the older summary counts.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Maryland cities closest to Baltimore in population. Their populations run from 29,209 to 88,428, against 566,632 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Baltimore sits at 1,606.2/100K violent (grade F); the Maryland cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Baltimore at 1,606.2/100K violent and 4,157/100K property - matched below outside Maryland (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
1,606.2/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
4,157/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-5.2% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Baltimore reported 9,101 violent crimes and 23,555 property crimes, for a total of 32,656 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Baltimore's violent crime rate decreased by 5.2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 19.4%.
The most common crime type in Baltimore is larceny-theft, accounting for 44.8% of all reported crimes (14,630 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Baltimore's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (very large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Large-city rate methodology for how Baltimore's very large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Baltimore, MD rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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