Maryland school safety

City and district rankings from federal incident data · 2021-22 collection

1,391SCHOOLS

1,100WITH TRUSTED DATA

50RANKED CITIES

Safest ranked cities in Maryland

Percentile is against all ranked U.S. cities (higher = safer). Only cities with ≥5 trustworthy-data schools are ranked. Home value is Zillow's ZHVI.

#	CITY	SAFETY PCTL	SCHOOLS	HOME VALUE
1	Sykesville	96	9 of 11	$566,909
2	Elkridge	96	6 of 6	$489,926
3	Arnold	95	5 of 6	$610,070
4	Westminster	93	10 of 17	$471,982
5	Severna Park	91	7 of 8	$762,573
6	Ijamsville	90	5 of 6	$730,502
7	Reisterstown	90	7 of 7	$421,457
8	Walkersville	88	5 of 5	$473,253
9	Columbia	86	22 of 23	$518,039
10	Frederick	79	30 of 30	$469,711
11	Ellicott City	79	15 of 21	$748,152
12	Owings Mills	75	7 of 7	$405,209
13	Odenton	72	5 of 5	$477,189
14	Lusby	66	5 of 5	$382,873
15	Laurel	63	17 of 19	$480,750
16	Baltimore	60	237 of 274	$192,669
17	Prince Frederick	59	5 of 6	$485,461
18	Edgewater	59	5 of 6	$589,675
19	Hagerstown	57	21 of 24	$307,383
20	Bel Air	57	13 of 16	$469,900
21	Germantown	56	11 of 20	$425,701
22	Bethesda	55	8 of 16	$1,168,471
23	Owings	55	5 of 5	$628,130
24	Oxon Hill	54	8 of 10	—
25	Greenbelt	52	5 of 5	$282,665
26	Silver Spring	49	34 of 54	$556,503
27	Cumberland	48	9 of 9	$160,832
28	Gaithersburg	45	20 of 28	$529,016
29	Lanham	44	6 of 8	—
30	Bladensburg	43	5 of 6	$328,466
31	Hyattsville	43	8 of 12	$408,502
32	Beltsville	40	5 of 7	$463,307
33	Upper Marlboro	40	17 of 18	—
34	Temple Hills	40	8 of 10	$329,410
35	Riverdale	39	5 of 6	$470,220
36	Clarksburg	39	5 of 7	$639,846
37	Rockville	36	23 of 33	$623,896
38	Bowie	36	11 of 15	$530,886
39	Landover	36	9 of 12	—
40	Fort Washington	36	10 of 12	$458,443
41	Waldorf	33	19 of 20	$439,312
42	La Plata	33	5 of 5	$486,292
43	Forestville	30	5 of 5	—
44	Indian Head	29	5 of 5	$352,029
45	Millersville	25	6 of 6	—
46	Glen Burnie	25	20 of 21	$401,291
47	Aberdeen	24	5 of 7	$349,705
48	Clinton	24	5 of 7	$446,104
49	Pasadena	21	11 of 12	$464,140
50	Capitol Heights	17	5 of 7	$330,659

Safest ranked districts

#	DISTRICT	SAFETY PCTL	SCHOOLS
1	Carroll County Public Schools	95	30 of 43
2	Queen Anne's County Public Schools	93	9 of 14
3	Howard County Public Schools	81	63 of 76
4	Frederick County Public Schools	77	63 of 67
5	Baltimore County Public Schools	71	137 of 174
6	Calvert County Public Schools	66	23 of 24
7	Caroline County Public Schools	64	7 of 9
8	Washington County Public Schools	60	39 of 44
9	Allegany County Public Schools	53	22 of 22
10	Baltimore City Public Schools	47	139 of 156
11	Montgomery County Public Schools	44	129 of 206
12	Cecil County Public Schools	42	12 of 28
13	Prince George's County Public Schools	36	165 of 203
14	Charles County Public Schools	34	37 of 38
15	Worcester County Public Schools	34	6 of 13
16	Anne Arundel County Public Schools	27	113 of 123
17	Harford County Public Schools	27	50 of 55
18	St. Mary's County Public Schools	10	19 of 26
19	Somerset County Public Schools	7	5 of 8
20	Dorchester County Public Schools	5	8 of 11
21	Talbot County Public Schools	3	8 of 8
22	Wicomico County Public Schools	1	8 of 25

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