Frederick, MD has a C safety grade (45/100) with a violent crime rate of 406 per 100,000, 15% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Frederick, MD Crime Rate & Safety
At 88,428 residents, Frederick is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against MD and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Frederick, MD carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 15% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Frederick, MD shows violent crime at 406 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,673.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 15% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
C safety grade
406/100K violent
1673.7/100K property
+15% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Frederick, MD
Comparable rate records
Frederick's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Maryland cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Frederick's 406.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Berwyn Heights (401.1), Easton (399.6), Laurel (393.7), Colmar Manor (388.9). 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.
Position in the state cohort
Frederick sits mid-pack among comparable Maryland cities
At 406.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Frederick ranks 26 of 72 — above 46 of the 71 other Maryland cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +60.5% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 340.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 406.0 in 2024 (+19.1%). The highest observed value was 406.0 in 2024 and the lowest 340.9 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 19.5% of the 1,839 Part I offenses reported in Frederick for 2024, against a median of 14.3% across comparable Maryland cities — a gap of 5.2 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 counts dominate Frederick'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 large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Frederick's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 24 Census sq mi, Frederick logged 61.8 property and 15 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Frederick's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (63% of 1,839 offenses; mix index 4,397).
Violent offenses are 20% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (24 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
-9.2%
1844.2 → 1673.7/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+5.5%
385 → 406/100K
Property offenses lead Frederick's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs MD
Property Crime
1,480
1673.7
2074.5
Larceny-Theft
1,165
1317.5
-
Burglary
216
244.3
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
99
112
-
Arson
4
4.5
-
Violent Crime
359
406
425.1
Aggravated Assault
262
296.3
-
Rape
49
55.4
-
Robbery
46
52
-
Murder
2
2.3
-
Frederick Crime Trend (2020-2024)
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Frederick property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Frederick Police Department
Reporting agency for Frederick NIBRS-participating
Frederick Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Frederick's 1,839 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.
Similar-Size Cities in Maryland
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Maryland cities closest to Frederick in population. Their populations run from 24,193 to 69,590, against 88,428 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Frederick reported 359 violent crimes and 1,480 property crimes, for a total of 1,839 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Frederick?
From 2023 to 2024, Frederick's violent crime rate increased by 5.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 9.2%.
What is the most common crime in Frederick?
The most common crime type in Frederick is larceny-theft, accounting for 63.3% of all reported crimes (1,165 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Frederick'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 (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Frederick, MD rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.