Landover Hills, MD is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 127% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Landover Hills, MD shows violent crime at 799.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 7,481.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 127% 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.
F safety grade
799.5/100K violent
7481.4/100K property
+127% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Landover Hills, MD
Small-count caution
The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable
Landover Hills reported 14 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 1,751. 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
Landover Hills's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Maryland cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Landover Hills's 799.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Annapolis (808.5), Mount Rainier (782.1), District Heights (780.0), 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.
Position in the state cohort
Landover Hills reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Maryland cities
At 799.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Landover Hills ranks 12 of 72 — above 60 of the 71 other Maryland cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +216.1% 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.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 45.0% of reported property offenses in Landover Hills, against a cohort median of 78.0%. The remainder is burglary (55) and motor vehicle theft (17). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 669.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 799.5 in 2024 (+19.3%). The highest observed value was 2116.7 in 2023 and the lowest 0.0 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 9.7% of the 145 Part I offenses reported in Landover Hills for 2024, against a median of 14.6% across comparable Maryland cities — a gap of 4.9 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 Landover Hills'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 14 reported violent incidents in a population of 1,751. 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.
On a small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
Landover Hills's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 0.4 Census sq mi, Landover Hills logged 356 property and 38 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Landover Hills leans on larceny-theft at 41% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,278.
Violent offenses are only 10% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (0.4 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
+76.7%
4233.4 → 7481.4/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-62.2%
2116.7 → 799.5/100K
Property offenses lead Landover Hills's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs MD
Property Crime
131
7481.4
1711
2074.5
Larceny-Theft
59
3369.5
-
-
Burglary
55
3141.1
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
17
970.9
-
-
Arson
0
0
-
-
Violent Crime
14
799.5
352
425.1
Robbery
7
399.8
-
-
Aggravated Assault
7
399.8
-
-
Murder
0
0
-
-
Rape
0
0
-
-
Landover Hills 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.
Landover Hills 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
Landover Hills Police Department
Reporting agency for Landover Hills NIBRS-participating
Landover Hills Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Landover Hills's 145 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 Landover Hills in population. Their populations run from 1,479 to 2,020, against 1,751 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Landover Hills reported 14 violent crimes and 131 property crimes, for a total of 145 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Landover Hills?
From 2023 to 2024, Landover Hills's violent crime rate decreased by 62.2%, and the property crime rate increased by 76.7%.
What is the most common crime in Landover Hills?
The most common crime type in Landover Hills is larceny-theft, accounting for 40.7% of all reported crimes (59 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Landover Hills's FBI UCR Table 8 row (2024) is the only source for the rates above.
With a small population base, per-100,000 rates amplify sparse counts. Incomplete submissions are excluded from rankings. See FBI.gov UCR for the raw Table 8 file.
Disclaimer (small municipal): small-base rates are especially easy to misread. Informational only - not advice. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Landover Hills, MD rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.