Gaithersburg, MD has a B safety grade (63/100) with a violent crime rate of 253 per 100,000, 28% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Gaithersburg, MD Crime Rate & Safety
At 69,590 residents, Gaithersburg 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.
Gaithersburg, MD carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 28% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Gaithersburg, MD shows violent crime at 252.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,312 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 28% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
B safety grade
252.9/100K violent
1312/100K property
-28% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Gaithersburg, MD
Comparable rate records
Gaithersburg's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Maryland cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Gaithersburg's 252.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Westminster (241.9), Bel Air (239.9), Chestertown (231.5), Cheverly (217.8). 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.
2022–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 3 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 209.7 per 100,000 in 2022 to 252.9 in 2024 (+20.6%). The highest observed value was 252.9 in 2024 and the lowest 209.7 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
Gaithersburg sits mid-pack among comparable Maryland cities
At 252.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Gaithersburg ranks 37 of 72 — above 35 of the 71 other Maryland cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -13.7% against the cohort median of 293.0. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Property counts dominate Gaithersburg'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.
Gaithersburg's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 10.3 Census sq mi, Gaithersburg logged 88.3 property and 17 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Gaithersburg's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (65% of 1,089 offenses; mix index 4,568).
Violent offenses are 16% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (10.3 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
-12.3%
1496.8 → 1312/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+5.9%
238.8 → 252.9/100K
Property offenses lead Gaithersburg's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs MD
Property Crime
913
1312
2074.5
Larceny-Theft
712
1023.1
-
Burglary
105
150.9
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
96
138
-
Arson
0
0
-
Violent Crime
176
252.9
425.1
Aggravated Assault
110
158.1
-
Robbery
45
64.7
-
Rape
20
28.7
-
Murder
1
1.4
-
Gaithersburg Crime Trend (2022-2024)
Gaithersburg property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 3 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Gaithersburg Police Department
Reporting agency for Gaithersburg NIBRS-participating
Gaithersburg Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Gaithersburg's 1,089 reported offenses (3-year span 2022-2024).
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.
Similar-Size Cities in Maryland
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Maryland cities closest to Gaithersburg in population. Their populations run from 24,193 to 88,428, against 69,590 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Gaithersburg reported 176 violent crimes and 913 property crimes, for a total of 1,089 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Gaithersburg?
From 2023 to 2024, Gaithersburg's violent crime rate increased by 5.9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 12.3%.
What is the most common crime in Gaithersburg?
The most common crime type in Gaithersburg is larceny-theft, accounting for 65.4% of all reported crimes (712 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Gaithersburg'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 Gaithersburg, MD rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.