Photo: Flickr user: high limitzz https://www.flickr.com/people/highlimitstudio/ · CC BY 2.0Annapolis reports more crime per resident than 90% of U.S. towns
On crimes reported to the FBI by Annapolis’ police in 2023–2025, it grades D for safety: #36 of 52 graded towns in Maryland.
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. “Rest of MD” is every other Maryland city and town in the FBI’s tables; the U.S. figure is the FBI’s national estimate as published, averaged over the three years. The FBI publishes no national homicide or robbery rate in our data, so those compare with all U.S. cities and towns in its tables.
What stands out about safety in Annapolis
Among Maryland towns, closer to the middle
Maryland’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Annapolis’ place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 31% of the 52 Maryland towns we grade, against 10% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
A college town
Annapolis is home to United States Naval Academy, with 4,465 students taking classes on campus (federal college data), and 5% of residents are enrolled in college (Census). Students who live in town count as residents, so they are part of the per-resident rate. How to read it ↓
Reported crime is falling
Crime reported per resident fell from 2023 to 2025 by more than ordinary year-to-year swings, on the grade’s own score. Trend ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Annapolis’ grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Both violent and property crime are higher than in most U.S. towns; property crime is the closer of the two to typical.
Reported crime is falling
Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of Maryland.
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| Year | Annapolis property | Rest of Maryland property | Annapolis violent | Rest of Maryland violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 19.4 | 27.7 | 5.3 | 11.0 |
| 2023 | 23.5 | 30.9 | 6.7 | 9.0 |
| 2024 | 20.9 | 30.5 | 8.1 | 8.9 |
| 2025 | 13.9 | 27.4 | 7.1 | 7.3 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Violent crime, by year and by type
Annapolis’ police reported 887 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 7.3 per 1,000 residents a year, against 8.4 in the rest of Maryland and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
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| Year | Annapolis | Rest of Maryland | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5.3 | 11.0 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 6.7 | 9.0 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 8.1 | 8.9 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 7.1 | 7.3 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
For every 1,000 residents, about 14 property crimes reported
And about 7 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Crimes reported to police in 2025 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.
854 crimes reported in 2025
287 violent and 567 property, as reported to the FBI by Annapolis’ police.
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
10 people died in crashes on Annapolis’s roads in 2019–2023
Annapolis had 10 fatal crashes in five years, in which 10 people died; 3 were pedestrians and 1 was a cyclist.
That is 4.9 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, about the same as the median for Maryland towns of 25,000–100,000 people (5.1, 54 towns).
Deaths are counted where the crash happened, not where the people lived: a highway through town adds through-traffic deaths, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Town rates sit below state and U.S. rates because a third of fatal crashes happen outside any town. Road safety is described here and is not part of the Safety Grade. Source: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023.
Annapolis and its neighbors
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Annapolis | D | 7.3 | 19.5 |
| Annapolis Neck | — | — | — |
| Parole | — | — | — |
| Naval Academy | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Annapolis Neck, Parole and Naval Academy are unincorporated communities (census-designated places) with no police department of their own.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- It’s reported crime. Only incidents reported to and recorded by police appear here. Many crimes are never reported to police.
- One number for all of Annapolis. A town-wide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of town to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Annapolis’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (40,647 in 2025); our figure for Annapolis is 40,634 (2025 Census estimate).
- Gaps are real gaps. A missing year means the department didn’t report a full year, not that nothing happened.
How the grade is calculated, for every town: How TownRatings grades safety →
Questions about safety in Annapolis
Is Annapolis, MD safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Annapolis reports more crime per resident than 90% of U.S. towns, a D Safety Grade and #36 of 52 in Maryland. Its police reported 7.3 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 8.4 in the rest of Maryland and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Annapolis?
7.3 violent and 19.5 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Maryland reports 8.4 and 29.6; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Is crime going up or down in Annapolis?
Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings.
How many homicides were there in Annapolis in 2025?
Annapolis’s police reported 4 homicides to the FBI for 2025, 9.8 per 100,000 residents. Across U.S. cities and towns in the FBI’s tables the 2025 figure was 4.6.
Who polices Annapolis?
Annapolis’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Annapolis”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
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Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 2025, and state and national rates. Counts are crimes reported to police, not convictions. The Safety Grade is our own summary of that data, not an official rating. Road deaths: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023. This isn’t an official statement of public safety. In an emergency, call 911.