Baltimore Fraud

Baltimore · Fraud · updated 2026-11-12

In 2025, the latest complete year, Baltimore police open data recorded 2,070 fraud incidents, 4.4% of all 47,105 incidents reported in the city that year and up 2.7% from 2024. That is about 364 per 100,000 residents, compared with 309 per 100,000 across the 58 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with complete 2025 data that list this crime type. So far in 2026, 1,584 fraud incidents have been published.

Fraud in Baltimore by year

YearIncidentsPer 100Kvs prior year
2026 (year to date)1,584——
20252,070364up 2.7%
20242,016355down 37.1%
20233,204564up 13.0%
20222,836499—

Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 11,710 fraud incidents.

Neighborhoods with the most fraud (2025)

  1. Downtown 86 incidents
  2. Frankford 53 incidents
  3. Fells Point 46 incidents
  4. Morrell Park 39 incidents
  5. Mount Vernon 38 incidents
  6. Canton 37 incidents
  7. Belair-Edison 31 incidents
  8. Brooklyn 31 incidents

Neighborhood names as published by the police feed; counts are not adjusted for population.

Questions

How many fraud incidents were reported in Baltimore in 2025?

2,070, according to Baltimore Police Department open data as mapped by TheCrimeMaps.com.

Is fraud going up or down in Baltimore?

Reported fraud was up 2.7% in 2025 compared with 2024, and down 27.0% compared with 2022 (falling over three years).

Where does this data come from?

Source: Baltimore Police Department open data. TheCrimeMaps.com groups each published offense into a crime type; counts are police-reported incidents, not convictions, and some reports are reclassified or removed by the source later.

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