District Heights, MD has a F safety grade (15/100) with a violent crime rate of 780 per 100,000, 122% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
District Heights is a small municipal reporter (5,769 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with MD and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
District Heights, MD is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 122% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, District Heights, MD shows violent crime at 780 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,681.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 122% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 449.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 780.0 in 2024 (+73.6%). The highest observed value was 780.0 in 2024 and the lowest 310.3 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to District Heights's 780.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Mount Rainier (782.1), Landover Hills (799.5), Annapolis (808.5), Hagerstown (713.9). 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 31.7% of the 142 Part I offenses reported in District Heights for 2024, against a median of 14.3% across comparable Maryland cities — a gap of 17.4 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 780.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, District Heights ranks 14 of 72 — above 58 of the 71 other Maryland cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +208.4% 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 51.5% of reported property offenses in District Heights, against a cohort median of 78.0%. The remainder is burglary (7) and motor vehicle theft (40). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate District Heights'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.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Across 0.9 Census sq mi, District Heights logged 112 property and 52 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
District Heights leans on larceny-theft at 35% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,692.
Violent offenses are 32% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
District Heights offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (0.9 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 | 97 | 1681.4 |
| Larceny-Theft | 50 | 866.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 40 | 693.4 |
| Burglary | 7 | 121.3 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 45 | 780 |
| Aggravated Assault | 35 | 606.7 |
| Robbery | 7 | 121.3 |
| Rape | 2 | 34.7 |
| Murder | 1 | 17.3 |
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 6,010 | 449.3 | 1896.8 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 6,002 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 5,801 | 310.3 | 1223.9 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 5,755 | 608.2 | 2519.5 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 5,769 | 780 | 1681.4 |
District Heights Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind District Heights's 142 reported offenses (4-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
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 District Heights in population. Their populations run from 5,025 to 6,445, against 5,769 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
District Heights sits at 780/100K violent (grade F); the Maryland cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, District Heights reported 45 violent crimes and 97 property crimes, for a total of 142 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, District Heights's violent crime rate increased by 28.2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 33.3%.
The most common crime type in District Heights is larceny-theft, accounting for 35.2% of all reported crimes (50 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: District Heights is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how District Heights's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 District Heights, MD rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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