County crime profile · 2024 · very large county · property-led

Prince George's County, MD

At 967,201 residents, Prince George's 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

16,672
Property offenses
2,872
Violent offenses
19,544
Total · 2024

Prince George's County, MD reported 297 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024

According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Prince George's County, MD agencies reported 2,872 violent and 16,672 property offenses. That equals about 297 violent and 1724 property crimes per 100,000 using a verified Census population join. Table 10 coverage is a voluntary subset of U.S. counties.

  • 2024 UCR year
  • 2,872 violent offenses
  • 297/100K violent rate

What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Prince George's County, MD

Share of the state cohort

Prince George's County carries a large share of the reporting cohort’s total offenses

The 19,544 Part I offenses reported here are 44.8% of the 43,641 reported across all 19 comparable Maryland counties in 2024. A county this large moves the statewide total on its own, so state-level changes should be read against its population of 967,201 rather than as a uniform shift.

Position in the state cohort

Prince George's County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Maryland counties

At 296.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Prince George's County ranks 3 of 19 — above 16 of the 18 other Maryland counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +259.3% against the cohort median of 82.7. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.

Property-offense composition

Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort

Larceny-theft is 54.7% of reported property offenses in Prince George's County, against a cohort median of 73.9%. The remainder is burglary (1,204) and motor vehicle theft (6,341). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.

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.

Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · very large county

Category Count
Property Crime 16,672
Burglary 1,204
Larceny-Theft 9,127
Motor Vehicle Theft 6,341
Arson 5
Violent Crime 2,872
Murder 100
Rape 180
Robbery 1,363
Aggravated Assault 1,229

Reporting Agency

Prince George's County Police Department NIBRS-participating

Prince George's County's crime figures on this page originate from Prince George's County Police Department'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.

Similar-Size Counties in Maryland

A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the Maryland counties closest to Prince George's County in population. Their populations run from 271,717 to 1,062,061, against 967,201 here. Or launch the side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two jurisdictions directly.

Nationwide peers for Prince George's County

Similar violent rate (~297/100K)

Similar property rate (~1,724/100K)

ZIP Codes in Prince George's County

State atlas: Maryland · Compare · Rankings

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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