Maryland's comparable FBI window (2014–2024, 11 years) shows declines on both major offense rates — charts below keep the larger |endpoint| move first.
Declining-window verdict
Maryland's violent crime rate fell 2.5% from 2014 to 2024; its property crime rate fell 17.2%. The endpoints agree on the broad direction, but the intervening years still matter.
Recent direction check
From 2021 to 2024, the violent-crime rate rose 72.7%, compared with -2.5% across the full 2014-2024 window. That difference is why the latest few observations should be read separately from the decade-scale endpoints.
Peak and trough
The highest observed violent-crime rate was 498.0 in 2017; the lowest was 246.2 in 2021. The latest value lies 71% of the way from that low to that peak, which shows whether the endpoint is close to an extreme or near the middle of the observed range.
Year-to-year movement
The largest annual change ran from 2021 to 2022: +74.6%. Across the full sequence, 5 year-to-year steps rose by more than 1% and 5 fell by more than 1%. A single sharp step can reflect participation or reporting changes as well as a real change in recorded offenses.
Latest national comparison
For 2024, the state rate was 425.1 per 100,000 versus 352.0 across the state records in this dataset, a gap of 20.8% above. This is a state-level benchmark, not a neighborhood-safety conclusion.
Full-window endpoints
Violent crime moved from 435.9 to 425.1 per 100,000 (-2.5%). Property crime moved from 2506.7 to 2074.5 (-17.2%). These are endpoint comparisons, not proof that every intervening year followed the same direction.
Rate denominator
The reported population changed from 5,976,407 to 6,263,220 (+4.8%). Rates account for that denominator change; raw offense counts do not. This is one reason a count and a per-100,000 rate can move by different percentages over the same years.
Maryland's property rate rose 94.3% (+830.8 per 100K) from 2021 to 2022 (881.0 → 1711.8) — the sharpest comparable year-to-year step in this window. The largest move the other way was dropped 45.8% from 2020 to 2021 (1626.2 → 881.0).
Maryland's property gap vs the US aggregate moved from 0.6% below in 2014 to 21.2% above in 2024 (+21.8 pp).
| Year | Coverage | Population | Property | Rate | YoY | Violent | Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Comparable | 6,263,220 | 129,928 | 2074.5 | ↓ 4.5% | 26,625 | 425.1 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 6,180,253 | 134,295 | 2173 | ↑ 26.9% | 27,514 | 445.2 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 6,164,660 | 105,525 | 1711.8 | ↑ 94.3% | 26,493 | 429.8 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 6,165,129 | 54,315 | 881 | ↓ 45.8% | 15,179 | 246.2 |
| 2020 | Comparable | 6,055,802 | 98,480 | 1626.2 | ↓ 17.2% | 24,789 | 409.3 |
| 2019 | Comparable | 6,045,680 | 118,768 | 1964.5 | ↓ 4.1% | 27,520 | 455.2 |
| 2018 | Comparable | 6,042,718 | 123,751 | 2047.9 | ↓ 7.8% | 28,354 | 469.2 |
| 2017 | Comparable | 6,052,177 | 134,359 | 2220 | ↓ 4.9% | 30,139 | 498 |
| 2016 | Comparable | 6,016,447 | 140,489 | 2335.1 | ↑ 3.7% | 28,997 | 482 |
| 2015 | Comparable | 6,006,401 | 135,259 | 2251.9 | ↓ 10.2% | 26,529 | 441.7 |
| 2014 | Comparable | 5,976,407 | 149,812 | 2506.7 | - | 26,053 | 435.9 |
More in Maryland: overview, safest cities, most dangerous, compare. Methodology — FBI UCR / Crime Data Explorer rates per 100,000 for Maryland (2014–2024); Census population where FBI denominators are missing.