New Carrollton, MD carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 17% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, New Carrollton, MD shows violent crime at 293 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,645.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 17% 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.
C safety grade
293/100K violent
1645.1/100K property
-17% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for New Carrollton, MD
Comparable rate records
New Carrollton's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Maryland cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to New Carrollton's 293.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Mount Airy (321.1), Gaithersburg (252.9), Westminster (241.9), Bel Air (239.9). 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 223.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 293.0 in 2024 (+31.2%). The highest observed value was 422.2 in 2023 and the lowest 223.2 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 57.1% of reported property offenses in New Carrollton, against a cohort median of 78.0%. The remainder is burglary (16) and motor vehicle theft (78). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
New Carrollton sits mid-pack among comparable Maryland cities
At 293.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, New Carrollton ranks 36 of 72 — above 36 of the 71 other Maryland cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +15.8% 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 New Carrollton'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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
New Carrollton's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 1.6 Census sq mi, New Carrollton logged 139.8 property and 24.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
New Carrollton leans on larceny-theft at 48% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,407.
Violent offenses are 15% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (1.6 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-30.6%
422.2 → 293/100K
Property Crime Rate
-23.7%
2156 → 1645.1/100K
Property offenses lead New Carrollton's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs MD
Property Crime
219
1645.1
2074.5
Larceny-Theft
125
939
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
78
585.9
-
Burglary
16
120.2
-
Arson
0
0
-
Violent Crime
39
293
425.1
Aggravated Assault
22
165.3
-
Robbery
15
112.7
-
Rape
2
15
-
Murder
0
0
-
New Carrollton 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.
New Carrollton 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
New Carrollton Police Department
Reporting agency for New Carrollton NIBRS-participating
New Carrollton Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind New Carrollton's 258 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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New Carrollton at 293/100K violent and 1,645.1/100K property - matched below outside Maryland (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, New Carrollton reported 39 violent crimes and 219 property crimes, for a total of 258 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in New Carrollton?
From 2023 to 2024, New Carrollton's violent crime rate decreased by 30.6%, and the property crime rate decreased by 23.7%.
What is the most common crime in New Carrollton?
The most common crime type in New Carrollton is larceny-theft, accounting for 48.4% of all reported crimes (125 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: New Carrollton 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 New Carrollton, MD rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.