Mount Rainier, MD is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 122% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Mount Rainier, MD shows violent crime at 782.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,631.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 122% 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
782.1/100K violent
2631.9/100K property
+122% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Mount Rainier, MD
Comparable rate records
Mount Rainier's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Maryland cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Mount Rainier's 782.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are District Heights (780.0), Landover Hills (799.5), Annapolis (808.5), 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
Mount Rainier reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Maryland cities
At 782.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Mount Rainier ranks 13 of 72 — above 59 of the 71 other Maryland cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +209.2% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 22.9% of the 275 Part I offenses reported in Mount Rainier for 2024, against a median of 14.3% across comparable Maryland cities — a gap of 8.6 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
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 63.7% of reported property offenses in Mount Rainier, against a cohort median of 78.0%. The remainder is burglary (10) and motor vehicle theft (67). 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 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 676.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 782.1 in 2024 (+15.6%). The highest observed value was 782.1 in 2024 and the lowest 579.4 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Mount Rainier'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.
Mount Rainier's 2024 municipal footprint
Mount Rainier leans on larceny-theft at 49% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,232.
Violent offenses are 23% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (when validated); 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
-27.6%
3634.1 → 2631.9/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+6.5%
734.3 → 782.1/100K
Property offenses lead Mount Rainier's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
212
2631.9
1711
Larceny-Theft
135
1676
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
67
831.8
-
Burglary
10
124.1
-
Arson
1
12.4
-
Violent Crime
63
782.1
352
Aggravated Assault
32
397.3
-
Robbery
24
298
-
Rape
4
49.7
-
Murder
3
37.2
-
Mount Rainier 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.
Mount Rainier 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
Mount Rainier Police Department
Reporting agency for Mount Rainier NIBRS-participating
Mount Rainier Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Mount Rainier's 275 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
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In 2024, Mount Rainier reported 63 violent crimes and 212 property crimes, for a total of 275 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Mount Rainier?
From 2023 to 2024, Mount Rainier's violent crime rate increased by 6.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 27.6%.
What is the most common crime in Mount Rainier?
The most common crime type in Mount Rainier is larceny-theft, accounting for 49.1% of all reported crimes (135 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Mount Rainier 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Mount Rainier, MD rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.