Salisbury, MD has a F safety grade (4/100) with a violent crime rate of 955 per 100,000, 171% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Salisbury (33,205 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then MD and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Salisbury, MD carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 171% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Salisbury, MD shows violent crime at 954.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,005.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 171% 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 954.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Salisbury ranks 10 of 72 — above 62 of the 71 other Maryland cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +277.5% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Salisbury's 954.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Bladensburg (969.9), Ocean City (980.1), Riverdale Park (984.7), Seat Pleasant (994.4). 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 24.1% of the 1,315 Part I offenses reported in Salisbury for 2024, against a median of 14.3% across comparable Maryland cities — a gap of 9.8 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 920.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 954.7 in 2024 (+3.7%). The highest observed value was 1110.7 in 2023 and the lowest 920.8 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Salisbury'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.
Across 13.8 Census sq mi, Salisbury logged 72.3 property and 23 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Salisbury leans on larceny-theft at 57% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,885.
Violent offenses are 24% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Salisbury offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (13.8 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 | 998 | 3005.6 |
| Larceny-Theft | 753 | 2267.7 |
| Burglary | 182 | 548.1 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 63 | 189.7 |
| Arson | 3 | 9 |
| Violent Crime | 317 | 954.7 |
| Aggravated Assault | 255 | 768 |
| Robbery | 50 | 150.6 |
| Rape | 12 | 36.1 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 33,233 | 920.8 | 3186.6 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 33,294 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 33,063 | 1100.9 | 2622.3 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 33,312 | 1110.7 | 3019.9 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 33,205 | 954.7 | 3005.6 |
Salisbury Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Salisbury's 1,315 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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Maryland cities closest to Salisbury in population. Their populations run from 18,635 to 43,563, against 33,205 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Salisbury sits at 954.7/100K violent (grade F); the Maryland cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Salisbury at 954.7/100K violent and 3,005.6/100K property - matched below outside Maryland (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
954.7/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
3,005.6/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-14% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Salisbury reported 317 violent crimes and 998 property crimes, for a total of 1,315 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Salisbury's violent crime rate decreased by 14%, and the property crime rate decreased by 0.5%.
The most common crime type in Salisbury is larceny-theft, accounting for 57.3% of all reported crimes (753 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Salisbury 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.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Salisbury's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Salisbury, MD rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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