Rockville, MD has a B safety grade (72/100) with a violent crime rate of 150 per 100,000, 57% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Rockville, MD Crime Rate & Safety
At 67,285 residents, Rockville is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against MD and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Rockville, MD carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 57% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Rockville, MD shows violent crime at 150.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,523.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 57% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
B safety grade
150.1/100K violent
1523.4/100K property
-57% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Rockville, MD
Comparable rate records
Rockville's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Maryland cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Rockville's 150.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Hampstead (155.2), Havre de Grace (139.1), Brunswick (129.6), Federalsburg (178.8). 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
Rockville sits mid-pack among comparable Maryland cities
At 150.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Rockville ranks 53 of 72 — above 19 of the 71 other Maryland cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -48.8% 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.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 9.0% of the 1,126 Part I offenses reported in Rockville for 2024, against a median of 14.6% across comparable Maryland cities — a gap of 5.6 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.
2022–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 3 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 165.9 per 100,000 in 2022 to 150.1 in 2024 (-9.5%). The highest observed value was 165.9 in 2022 and the lowest 149.9 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Rockville'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.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Rockville's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 13.6 Census sq mi, Rockville logged 75.6 property and 7.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Rockville's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (68% of 1,126 offenses; mix index 4,969).
Violent offenses are only 9% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (13.6 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
+17.3%
1298.2 → 1523.4/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+0.1%
149.9 → 150.1/100K
Property offenses lead Rockville's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs MD
Property Crime
1,025
1523.4
2074.5
Larceny-Theft
770
1144.4
-
Burglary
129
191.7
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
126
187.3
-
Arson
1
1.5
-
Violent Crime
101
150.1
425.1
Aggravated Assault
60
89.2
-
Robbery
30
44.6
-
Rape
11
16.3
-
Murder
0
0
-
Rockville Crime Trend (2022-2024)
Rockville property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 3 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Rockville Police Department
Reporting agency for Rockville NIBRS-participating
Rockville Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Rockville's 1,126 reported offenses (3-year span 2022-2024).
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 Rockville in population. Their populations run from 24,193 to 88,428, against 67,285 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Rockville reported 101 violent crimes and 1,025 property crimes, for a total of 1,126 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Rockville?
From 2023 to 2024, Rockville's violent crime rate increased by 0.1%, and the property crime rate increased by 17.3%.
What is the most common crime in Rockville?
The most common crime type in Rockville is larceny-theft, accounting for 68.4% of all reported crimes (770 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Rockville's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Rockville, MD rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.