Mount Airy, MD has a C safety grade (59/100) with a violent crime rate of 321 per 100,000, 9% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Mount Airy is a small municipal reporter (9,966 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with MD and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Mount Airy, MD is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 9% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Mount Airy, MD shows violent crime at 321.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,023.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 9% below 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 3 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 52.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 321.1 in 2024 (+508.5%). The highest observed value was 414.2 in 2023 and the lowest 52.8 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Mount Airy's 321.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are New Carrollton (293.0), Brentwood (351.7), Perryville (354.8), Denton (358.2). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 23.9% of the 134 Part I offenses reported in Mount Airy for 2024, against a median of 14.3% across comparable Maryland cities — a gap of 9.6 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-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 93.1% of reported property offenses in Mount Airy, against a cohort median of 77.3%. The remainder is burglary (4) and motor vehicle theft (3). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
At 321.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Mount Airy ranks 35 of 72 — above 37 of the 71 other Maryland cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +27.0% 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 counts dominate Mount Airy'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.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Across 4.1 Census sq mi, Mount Airy logged 24.7 property and 7.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Mount Airy's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (71% of 134 offenses; mix index 5,576).
Violent offenses are 24% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Mount Airy offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (4.1 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 | 102 | 1023.5 |
| Larceny-Theft | 95 | 953.2 |
| Burglary | 4 | 40.1 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 3 | 30.1 |
| Arson | 1 | 10 |
| Violent Crime | 32 | 321.1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 31 | 311.1 |
| Robbery | 1 | 10 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
The chart omits 2021, 2022 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · rose across 3 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 9,476 | 52.8 | 939.2 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 9,522 | - | - |
| 2022 | Insufficient reporting | 9,831 | - | - |
| 2023 | Comparable | 9,899 | 414.2 | 1181.9 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 9,966 | 321.1 | 1023.5 |
Mount Airy Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Mount Airy's 134 reported offenses (3-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 Mount Airy in population. Their populations run from 6,946 to 12,233, against 9,966 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Mount Airy sits at 321.1/100K violent (grade C); the Maryland cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Mount Airy reported 32 violent crimes and 102 property crimes, for a total of 134 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Mount Airy's violent crime rate decreased by 22.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 13.4%.
The most common crime type in Mount Airy is larceny-theft, accounting for 70.9% of all reported crimes (95 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Mount Airy is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how Mount Airy's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Mount Airy, MD rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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