Area safety · Baltimore · data through September 2026

How safe is your Baltimore neighborhood?

SafeRoute scores every Baltimore community statistical area 0–100 from incidents reported to the Baltimore Police Department — severity-weighted, within 1 km of each area's center, normalized citywide. Higher is safer. Each area groups several neighborhoods, the way the city's own reporting does. The same data powers the SafeRoute app's crime-aware walking routes.

These figures describe reported crime around each area's center — they are informational, not a judgment of any community. Citywide median index: 52/100.

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Methodology

Each incident reported to the Baltimore Police Department (via Open Baltimore) is weighted by severity — violence counts for more than shoplifting. For every area we sum weighted incidents within 1 km of its center, and normalize against citywide crime rates onto a 0–100 index, higher = safer. Boundaries are BNIA-JFI's 56 Community Statistical Areas rather than Baltimore's 256 neighborhood statistical areas: the neighborhood set is finer than the 1 km radius this index measures over, so neighboring pages would describe almost the same circle. CSAs group those neighborhoods on census-tract lines — the same geography the city uses for its own indicator reporting — so each page covers a distinct part of the city. Time-of-day charts use BPD incident timestamps, severity-weighted. Pages regenerate as new data is published.

The index compares areas within Baltimore. It is not comparable between cities: each police force publishes a different set of offences over a different period — Baltimore's figures cannot be read against another city's on the same 0–100 scale.