Most Dangerous Neighborhoods in Baltimore (2024)
Baltimore's open crime data has no reliable neighborhood population figure, so these Baltimore neighborhoods are ranked by severity-weighted reported incident volume, not a per-person rate. The Baltimore neighborhoods at the top of this list have the most reported incidents relative to other Baltimore Baltimore neighborhoods.
Volume, not a safety rate. Baltimore neighborhood resident population is not reliably available for a per-100k rate, so no safety grade is published for any zone (see /crime-rate/methodology §6.6). The geographic unit is the Baltimore neighborhood (a policing/analysis boundary, not a resident-population neighborhood). relativeIndex ranks each zone by its VIOLENCE-WEIGHTED reported-incident volume (violent incidents weighted 3x property) against the other Baltimore zones — it is NOT population-adjusted and must not be read as a safety rate. Offenses are grouped into three coarse buckets (violent / property / other) via a keyword classifier.
Ranked highest reported volume first
Not the same Baltimore neighborhoods as the safest neighborhoods in baltimore list.
- 1Downtown0/100
- 2Frankford51/100
- 3Belair-Edison54/100
- 4Brooklyn62/100
- 5Sandtown-Winchester67/100
- 6Inner Harbor68/100
- 7Upton69/100
- 8Mondawmin72/100
- 9Fells Point72/100
- 10Cherry Hill74/100
- 11Washington Village/Pigtown77/100
- 12Patterson Park Neighborhood77/100
- 13Hampden77/100
- 14Canton77/100
- 15Mount Vernon78/100
- 16Central Park Heights78/100
- 17Mcelderry Park79/100
- 18East Baltimore Midway79/100
- 19Oliver80/100
- 20Coldstream Homestead Montebello81/100
- 21Carrollton Ridge81/100
- 22Pulaski Industrial Area82/100
- 23Hamilton Hills82/100
- 24Baltimore Highlands83/100
- 25Penrose/Fayette Street Outreach84/100
- 26Penn North84/100
- 27Oldtown84/100
- 28Gay Street84/100
- 29Ellwood Park/Monument84/100
- 30Better Waverly84/100
- 31Mid-Town Belvedere85/100
- 32Curtis Bay85/100
- 33Broadway East85/100
- 34Reservoir Hill86/100
- 35Reisterstown Station86/100
- 36Lakeland86/100
- 37Highlandtown86/100
- 38Harlem Park86/100
- 39Federal Hill86/100
- 40Dunbar-Broadway86/100
Showing the top 40 of 269 Baltimore neighborhoods.
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A high Crime Index score means lower reported crime relative to other US cities — it is not a guarantee of safety. Reported crime is not the same as actual crime. Research on the gap between crime that occurs and crime that gets reported to police — often called the "dark figure" of crime — estimates that roughly 40% of violent crime and about a third of property crime go unreported each year. Every index built on official statistics, including this one, necessarily undercounts real crime. That gap is exactly why homicide — the offense with the smallest dark figure — anchors the calculation instead of a more commonly reported but less reliable category like theft.
Scores on this page reflect FBI-reported data for 2024. See the full methodology →