Photo: Acroterion · CC BY-SA 4.0Reported crime per resident in Mount Airy fell 28% from 2023 to 2025
Overall, Mount Airy grades C+ for safety (#17 of 52 graded towns in Maryland): more crime per resident than 61% of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported to the FBI in 2023–2025.
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 Mount Airy
Among Maryland towns, closer to the middle
Maryland’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Mount Airy’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 67% of the 52 Maryland towns we grade, against 39% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
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 Mount Airy’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Property crime holds Mount Airy’s grade up; violent crime pulls it down. Its violent rate (3.3) is below the FBI’s national estimate (3.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns.
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, 2023–2025, against the rest of Maryland.
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| Year | Mount Airy property | Rest of Maryland property | Mount Airy violent | Rest of Maryland violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 11.8 | 30.8 | 4.1 | 9.0 |
| 2024 | 10.2 | 30.4 | 3.2 | 8.9 |
| 2025 | 8.9 | 27.1 | 2.5 | 7.3 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
For every 1,000 residents, about 9 property crimes reported
And about 3 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.
Violent crime, by year and by type
Mount Airy’s police reported 98 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 3.3 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 | Mount Airy | Rest of Maryland | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 4.1 | 9.0 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 3.2 | 8.9 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 2.5 | 7.3 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
114 crimes reported in 2025
25 violent and 89 property, as reported to the FBI by Mount Airy’s police.
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
Three people died in crashes on Mount Airy’s roads in 2019–2023
Mount Airy had 3 fatal crashes in five years, in which three people died; 2 were pedestrians. 1 died in crash on an Interstate.
That is about what is typical for Maryland towns of 5,000–25,000 people: at their median rate (5.7 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Mount Airy’s size would see about 3 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Mount Airy’s own rate (6.1) is context, not a ranking.
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.
Mount Airy and its neighbors
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Airy | C+ | 3.3 | 10.3 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Maryland towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Airy | C+ | 3.3 | 10.3 |
| Taneytown | A− | 1.2 | 4.7 |
| Brunswick | B+ | 1.7 | 5.3 |
| Bel Air | C | 1.9 | 21.6 |
| Mount Rainier | D | 5.8 | 28.1 |
| Bladensburg | D | 7.2 | 36.1 |
The five graded Maryland towns closest to Mount Airy’s population (9,857), by grade.
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 Mount Airy. 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 Mount Airy’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (9,982 in 2025); our figure for Mount Airy is 9,857 (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 Mount Airy
Is Mount Airy, MD safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Mount Airy reports more crime per resident than 61% of U.S. towns, a C+ Safety Grade and #17 of 52 in Maryland. Its police reported 3.3 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 Mount Airy?
3.3 violent and 10.3 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Maryland reports 8.4 and 29.4; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Is crime going up or down in Mount Airy?
Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings.
Who polices Mount Airy?
Mount Airy’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Mount Airy”. 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.