Frieda Fromm-Reichmann Cottage · Photo: Farragutful · CC BY-SA 4.0On property crime, Rockville has a higher rate per resident than three in five U.S. towns
Per resident, the graded rate barely moved from 2023 to 2025. Overall, Rockville grades B− for safety (#15 of 52 graded towns in Maryland): close to the middle of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025. By contrast, recorded violent crimes ran at 1.3 per 1,000 residents a year and property crime at 13.6, against 8.7 and 30.1 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 Rockville
Among Maryland towns, closer to the middle
Maryland’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Rockville’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 71% of the 52 Maryland towns we grade, against 49% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
A college town
Rockville is home to Montgomery College, with 15,953 students taking classes on campus (federal college data), and 7% 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 ↓
A job center
Rockville has 71,533 jobs based in town for 67,563 residents (Census LEHD), so some reports involve people who work or shop there rather than residents. How to read it ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Rockville’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Violent crime holds Rockville’s grade up; property crime pulls it down. Its property rate (13.6) is below the FBI’s national estimate (17.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Rockville | Rest of Maryland | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1.4 | 9.3 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 1.5 | 9.3 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 1.1 | 7.6 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Rockville’s police reported 268 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 1.3 per 1,000 residents a year, against 8.7 in the rest of Maryland and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Crime in Rockville 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 1 violent crime, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Reported crime is steady
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| Year | Rockville property | Rest of Maryland property | Rockville violent | Rest of Maryland violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 12.9 | 31.6 | 1.4 | 9.3 |
| 2024 | 15.2 | 31.0 | 1.5 | 9.3 |
| 2025 | 12.6 | 27.7 | 1.1 | 7.6 |
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.
937 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.
73 violent and 864 property, as reported to the FBI by Rockville’s police.
19 people died in crashes on Rockville’s roads in 2019–2023
Rockville had 18 fatal crashes in five years, in which 19 people died; 9 were pedestrians. 4 died in crashes on an Interstate.
That is 5.6 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.
Rockville and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rockville | B− | 1.3 | 13.6 |
| North Bethesda | — | — | — |
| Travilah | — | — | — |
| Potomac | — | — | — |
| Aspen Hill | — | — | — |
| Redland | — | — | — |
| North Potomac | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. North Bethesda, Travilah, Potomac, Aspen Hill, Redland and North Potomac are unincorporated communities (census-designated places) with no police department of their own.
Maryland towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rockville | B− | 1.3 | 13.6 |
| Gaithersburg | C+ | 2.3 | 12.8 |
| Bowie | C | 1.8 | 18.9 |
| Frederick | C− | 3.9 | 16.9 |
| Hagerstown | D | 6.7 | 23.5 |
| Annapolis | D | 7.3 | 19.5 |
The five graded Maryland towns closest to Rockville’s population (67,563), 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 Rockville. A citywide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of the city to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Rockville’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (68,690 in 2025); our figure for Rockville is 67,563 (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 Rockville
Is Rockville, MD safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Rockville reports more crime per resident than 51% of U.S. towns, a B− Safety Grade and #15 of 52 in Maryland. Its police reported 1.3 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 8.7 in the rest of Maryland and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Rockville?
1.3 violent and 13.6 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Maryland reports 8.7 and 30.1; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
How many homicides were there in Rockville in 2025?
Rockville’s police reported 3 homicides to the FBI for 2025, 4.4 per 100,000 residents. Across U.S. cities and towns in the FBI’s tables the 2025 figure was 4.6.
Who polices Rockville?
Rockville’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Rockville”. 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.