What city in Maryland has the lowest crime rate?

Ocean Pines, MD has the lowest violent crime rate among Maryland cities with 10,000+ population in this ranking, at 32.7 per 100,000 residents for 2024, according to FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program data.

What is the safest area to live in Maryland?

Based on FBI UCR violent-crime rates, Ocean Pines ranks safest among Maryland cities with 10,000+ population. The top 5 are Ocean Pines, Havre de Grace, Rockville, Bowie, La Plata. Smaller towns below the population threshold aren't included since low incident counts make their per-capita rates statistically unstable.

Maryland's 23 safest ranked cities average a violent crime rate of 504.3 per 100,000 residents, which is near or above the commonly-cited US national average. Safety varies significantly by city; see the full ranking above and each city's individual profile for specifics.

Safest Cities in Maryland

Top 23 cities (≥10,000 pop) by lowest FBI UCR violent crime rate per 100,000 · 2024. Lead: Ocean Pines at 32.7/100K.

FBI UCR Safest-Cities Snapshot: Maryland

Maryland lists 23 cities with 10,000+ population for 2024, spanning Ocean Pines at 32.7/100K violent down to Baltimore at 1606.2/100K on this cut. That is a 1573.5/100K spread inside the safest cohort alone, not a single statewide rate. Cohort average: 504.3 violent offenses per 100,000 residents.

Ocean Pines reported 4 violent and 40 property offenses on a 12,233 reporting population in 2024. Property rate 327/100K sits beside the 32.7/100K violent rate. Top five on the table: Ocean Pines, Havre de Grace, Rockville, Bowie, La Plata.

Ocean Pines offense desk

Ocean Pines's 2024 violent book concentrates in aggravated assault (50% of 4 Part I violent offenses; mix index 5,000).

Ocean Pines's violent rate rose 98.5% vs 2023 (16.5 → 32.7 per 100K) while staying #1 on this Maryland list.

Ocean Pines violent offense mix (2024)

Aggravated assault 2 offenses (50%) Rape 2 offenses (50%)

Mix index is HHI × 10,000 on Part I violent shares for the #1 city only, distinct from the per-100K ranking table.

#	Grade	City	Population	Violent Crime Rate	Property Crime Rate
1	A+	Ocean Pines	12,233	32.7/100K	327/100K
2	A	Havre de Grace	15,099	139.1/100K	1265/100K
3	B	Rockville	67,285	150.1/100K	1523.4/100K
4	B	Bowie	56,929	193.2/100K	2280/100K
5	B	La Plata	11,114	215.9/100K	1754.5/100K
6	C	Bel Air	10,422	239.9/100K	2005.4/100K
7	C	Westminster	20,671	241.9/100K	2041.5/100K
8	B	Gaithersburg	69,590	252.9/100K	1312/100K
9	C	New Carrollton	13,312	293/100K	1645.1/100K
10	D	Laurel	29,209	393.7/100K	4861.5/100K
11	C	Easton	17,268	399.6/100K	1980.5/100K
12	C	Frederick	88,428	406/100K	1673.7/100K
13	F	Cumberland	18,661	460.9/100K	3928/100K
14	F	Takoma Park	17,418	539.7/100K	7073.1/100K
15	F	Cambridge	13,205	545.2/100K	3188.2/100K
16	F	Aberdeen	18,635	595.7/100K	2033.8/100K
17	F	Greenbelt	24,193	648.9/100K	4377.3/100K
18	F	Hyattsville	20,506	687.6/100K	3340.5/100K
19	F	Hagerstown	43,563	713.9/100K	2463.1/100K
20	F	Annapolis	40,446	808.5/100K	2094.2/100K
21	F	Salisbury	33,205	954.7/100K	3005.6/100K
22	F	Elkton	16,017	1080.1/100K	5231.9/100K
23	F	Baltimore	566,632	1606.2/100K	4157/100K

Maryland overview · Most dangerous cities · National safest cities · Methodology - FBI UCR Part I rates; cities ≥10,000 pop; 2024.

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