County crime profile · 2024 · very large county · property-led
At 332,317 residents, Howard County is a very large county in Maryland. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Data updated 2026-08-24
Howard County, MD has incomplete FBI UCR agency reporting for 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, agencies serving Howard County, MD submitted 0 violent and 0 property offenses against a population of 332,317. Participation is voluntary, so incomplete filings are not a county crime measure and no safety grade is assigned from them.
Incomplete FBI reporting for this county
Law-enforcement agencies serving Howard County reported 0 violent and 0 property offences to the FBI for 2024 against a population of 332,317. Reporting to the UCR Program is voluntary, and figures this low for a population this size mean agencies did not submit complete data, not that little crime occurred. The numbers below are what was reported; they are not a measure of this county's crime level, and no safety grade is assigned from them.
Reporting completeness
FBI UCR participation is voluntary, and the 2024 submission covering Howard County does not pass the completeness test this site applies for a population of 332,317. The counts below are shown because they are what agencies reported, but they are not treated here as the county’s crime level, and Howard County is excluded from rankings and comparisons on this site for 2024.
Small-count caution
Howard County reported 0 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 332,317. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
On a very large county row, county figures aggregate every participating agency inside the county. Participation is voluntary. Per-100,000 rates use a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census county population, never a Table 10 field; unmatched counties stay count-only. A large county line encloses very different communities.
| Category | Count |
|---|---|
| Property Crime | 0 |
| Burglary | 0 |
| Larceny-Theft | 0 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 |
| Arson | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 0 |
| Murder | 0 |
| Rape | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 |
| Aggravated Assault | 0 |
Howard County's crime figures on this page originate from Howard County Sheriff's Office's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
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.
A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the Maryland counties closest to Howard County in population. Their populations run from 154,705 to 271,717, against 332,317 here. Or launch the side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two jurisdictions directly.
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Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Crime in the United States (CIUS) Table 10.
FBI Table 10 supplies county offense counts but no resident population. Where this page shows a per-100,000 rate, the denominator is a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census Bureau county population; unmatched county rows remain count-only. Statewide comparisons draw on the state UCR program. Verify with FBI.gov UCR and Census.gov QuickFacts.
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