Capitol Heights 20743 crime rates and crime statistics

Capitol Heights has an overall crime rate of 23 per 1,000 residents, making the crime rate here near the average for all cities and towns of all sizes in America. According to our analysis of FBI crime data, your chance of becoming a victim of crime in Capitol Heights is 1 in 44. How does Capitol Heights fare compared to other communities in Maryland of all population sizes? Capitol Heights's crime rate is lower than approximately 52% of Maryland communities.

However, when you compare Capitol Heights to other communities of similar population, then Capitol Heights crime rate (violent and property crimes combined) is quite a bit higher than average. Regardless of how Capitol Heights does relative to all communities in America of all sizes, when NeighborhoodScout compared it to communities of similar population size, its crime rate per thousand residents stands out as higher than most.

The crime data that NeighborhoodScout used for this analysis are the seven offenses from the uniform crime reports, collected by the FBI from 17,000 local law enforcement agencies, and include both violent and property crimes, combined.

Now let us turn to take a look at how Capitol Heights does for violent crimes specifically, and then how it does for property crimes. This is important because the overall crime rate can be further illuminated by understanding if violent crime or property crimes (or both) are the major contributors to the general rate of crime in Capitol Heights.

From our analysis, we discovered that violent crime in Capitol Heights occurs at a rate higher than in most communities of all population sizes in America. The chance that a person will become a victim of a violent crime in Capitol Heights; such as armed robbery, aggravated assault, rape or murder; is 1 in 257. This equates to a rate of 4 per one thousand inhabitants.

Significantly, based on the number of murders reported by the FBI and the number of residents living in the town, NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that Capitol Heights experiences one of the higher murder rates in the nation when compared with cities and towns for all sizes of population, from the largest to the smallest.

Moreover, the rate of property crime in Capitol Heights; burglary, larceny ($50 or more), grand theft auto, and arson; is 19 per 1,000 residents. This is about average for all cities and towns in America of all population sizes.

Importantly, we found that Capitol Heights has one of the highest rates of motor vehicle theft in the nation according to our analysis of FBI crime data. This is compared to communities of all sizes, from the smallest to the largest. In fact, your chance of getting your car stolen if you live in Capitol Heights is one in 219.