Havre de Grace, MD has a A safety grade (75/100) with a violent crime rate of 139 per 100,000, 60% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Havre de Grace (15,099 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
Havre de Grace, MD carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 60% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Havre de Grace, MD shows violent crime at 139.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,265 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 60% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade A from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Small-count caution
Havre de Grace reported 21 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 15,099. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Havre de Grace's 139.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Brunswick (129.6), Rockville (150.1), Hampstead (155.2), Rising Sun (107.9). 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
At 139.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Havre de Grace ranks 54 of 72 — above 18 of the 71 other Maryland cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -52.5% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 106.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 139.1 in 2024 (+31.0%). The highest observed value was 139.3 in 2023 and the lowest 106.1 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 9.9% of the 212 Part I offenses reported in Havre de Grace for 2024, against a median of 14.6% across comparable Maryland cities — a gap of 4.7 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 Havre de Grace'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.
Based on 21 reported violent incidents in a population of 15,099. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 5.9 Census sq mi, Havre de Grace logged 32.2 property and 3.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Havre de Grace's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (75% of 212 offenses; mix index 5,857).
Violent offenses are only 10% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Havre de Grace offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (5.9 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 | 191 | 1265 |
| Larceny-Theft | 160 | 1059.7 |
| Burglary | 20 | 132.5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 11 | 72.9 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 21 | 139.1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 13 | 86.1 |
| Robbery | 5 | 33.1 |
| Rape | 3 | 19.9 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
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 | 14,132 | 106.1 | 1188.8 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 14,263 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 14,883 | 127.7 | 1397.6 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 15,078 | 139.3 | 1346.3 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 15,099 | 139.1 | 1265 |
Havre de Grace Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Havre de Grace's 212 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 Havre de Grace in population. Their populations run from 12,233 to 18,661, against 15,099 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Havre de Grace sits at 139.1/100K violent (grade A); the Maryland cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Havre de Grace at 139.1/100K violent and 1,265/100K property - matched below outside Maryland (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
139.1/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,265/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Havre de Grace reported 21 violent crimes and 191 property crimes, for a total of 212 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Havre de Grace's violent crime rate decreased by 0.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 6%.
The most common crime type in Havre de Grace is larceny-theft, accounting for 75.5% of all reported crimes (160 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Havre de Grace 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 Havre de Grace's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Havre de Grace, MD rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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