Elkton, MD has a F safety grade (0/100) with a violent crime rate of 1080 per 100,000, 207% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Elkton (16,017 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then MD and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Elkton, MD carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 207% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Elkton, MD shows violent crime at 1,080.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 5,231.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 207% 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 1080.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Elkton ranks 5 of 72 — above 67 of the 71 other Maryland cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +327.1% 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 Elkton's 1080.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Morningside (1080.6), Seat Pleasant (994.4), Riverdale Park (984.7), Ocean City (980.1). 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 971.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 1080.1 in 2024 (+11.1%). The highest observed value was 1080.1 in 2024 and the lowest 727.6 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 69.5% of reported property offenses in Elkton, against a cohort median of 78.0%. The remainder is burglary (101) and motor vehicle theft (155). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Elkton'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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 9 Census sq mi, Elkton logged 92.7 property and 19.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Elkton leans on larceny-theft at 58% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,791.
Violent offenses are 17% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Elkton offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (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 | 838 | 5231.9 |
| Larceny-Theft | 582 | 3633.6 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 155 | 967.7 |
| Burglary | 101 | 630.6 |
| Arson | 7 | 43.7 |
| Violent Crime | 173 | 1080.1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 112 | 699.3 |
| Robbery | 39 | 243.5 |
| Rape | 20 | 124.9 |
| Murder | 2 | 12.5 |
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 · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 15,639 | 971.9 | 4776.5 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 15,684 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 15,806 | 727.6 | 5396.7 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 15,960 | 864.7 | 4787 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 16,017 | 1080.1 | 5231.9 |
Elkton Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Elkton's 1,011 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 Elkton in population. Their populations run from 12,233 to 18,661, against 16,017 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Elkton sits at 1,080.1/100K violent (grade F); the Maryland cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Elkton at 1,080.1/100K violent and 5,231.9/100K property - matched below outside Maryland (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
1,080.1/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
5,231.9/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Elkton reported 173 violent crimes and 838 property crimes, for a total of 1,011 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Elkton's violent crime rate increased by 24.9%, and the property crime rate increased by 9.3%.
The most common crime type in Elkton is larceny-theft, accounting for 57.6% of all reported crimes (582 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Elkton figures are FBI UCR CIUS Table 8 (vintage 2024), population-adjusted per 100,000.
Denominators are the reporting-year population on the municipal row. Incomplete years are dropped from rankings. Confirm at FBI Crime Data Explorer and Census.gov QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (mid-size municipal): figures are informational, not advice. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is the source. Consult a professional before decisions.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Elkton's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Elkton, MD rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Elkton is scored in the mid-size municipal band (16,017 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.