Photo: Christopher Sayan · CC BY-SA 3.0For property crime, New Carrollton trails 79% of U.S. towns per resident
Its two neighbors with figures both record more crime per resident. By contrast, the Safety Grade comes out at C−, drawn from crimes New Carrollton’s police reported through 2023 to 2025: #28 of 52 graded towns in Maryland. Year on year, 3.1 violent crimes and 20.6 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 8.4 and 29.4 in the rest of 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 New Carrollton
New Carrollton reports less crime than every graded town next door
Of the 5 Maryland towns on New Carrollton’s borders, 2 have a Safety Grade: Greenbelt (D−), Landover Hills (D−). Seabrook, Woodlawn and East Riverdale are unincorporated communities (census-designated places) with no police department of their own. Neighbors ↓
Among Maryland towns, closer to the middle
Maryland’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so New Carrollton’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 46% of the 52 Maryland towns we grade, against 23% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind New Carrollton’s 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; violent crime is the closer of the two to typical. Its violent rate (3.1) 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.
Crime in New Carrollton per 1,000 residents
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.
And about 3 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | New Carrollton | Rest of Maryland | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 3.5 | 9.0 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 2.9 | 9.0 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 2.8 | 7.4 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
New Carrollton’s police reported 124 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 3.1 per 1,000 residents a year, against 8.4 in the rest of Maryland and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Reported crime is steady
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| Year | New Carrollton property | Rest of Maryland property | New Carrollton violent | Rest of Maryland violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 23.5 | 30.8 | 3.5 | 9.0 |
| 2024 | 16.5 | 30.4 | 2.9 | 9.0 |
| 2025 | 21.8 | 27.1 | 2.8 | 7.4 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident was steady from 2023 to 2025: the change is within ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2023–2025, against the rest of Maryland.
335 crimes reported in 2025
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
38 violent and 297 property, as reported to the FBI by New Carrollton’s police.
Five people died in crashes on New Carrollton’s roads in 2019–2023
New Carrollton had 4 fatal crashes in five years, in which five 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 New Carrollton’s size would see about 4 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so New Carrollton’s own rate (7.4) 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.
New Carrollton and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Carrollton | C− | 3.1 | 20.6 |
| Seabrook | — | — | — |
| Woodlawn | — | — | — |
| East Riverdale | — | — | — |
| Landover Hills | D− | 12.3 | 53.8 |
| Greenbelt | D− | 6.4 | 44.9 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Seabrook, Woodlawn and East Riverdale are unincorporated communities (census-designated places) with no police department of their own.
Maryland towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Carrollton | C− | 3.1 | 20.6 |
| Ocean Pines | A+ | 0.2 | 2.5 |
| Havre de Grace | B− | 1.2 | 12.6 |
| La Plata | C+ | 1.9 | 16.6 |
| Cambridge | D | 6.0 | 36.1 |
| Elkton | D− | 9.1 | 47.7 |
The five graded Maryland towns closest to New Carrollton’s population (13,644), by grade.
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
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 New Carrollton. 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 New Carrollton’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (13,641 in 2025); our figure for New Carrollton is 13,644 (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 New Carrollton
Is New Carrollton, MD safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, New Carrollton reports more crime per resident than 77% of U.S. towns, a C− Safety Grade and #28 of 52 in Maryland. Its police reported 3.1 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 New Carrollton?
3.1 violent and 20.6 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 New Carrollton safer than Landover Hills?
Landover Hills reports more crime per resident than New Carrollton: Landover Hills grades D− for safety and New Carrollton C−. Landover Hills’s police reported 12.3 violent and 53.8 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices New Carrollton?
New Carrollton’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “New Carrollton”. 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.