Baltimore Theft

Baltimore · Theft · updated 2026-11-12

In 2025, the latest complete year, Baltimore police open data recorded 9,318 theft incidents, 19.8% of all 47,105 incidents reported in the city that year and up 3.4% from 2024. That is about 1,640 per 100,000 residents, compared with 1,637 per 100,000 across the 60 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with complete 2025 data that list this crime type. So far in 2026, 8,403 theft incidents have been published.

Theft in Baltimore by year

YearIncidentsPer 100Kvs prior year
2026 (year to date)8,403——
20259,3181,640up 3.4%
20249,0151,586up 13.4%
20237,9531,400up 17.9%
20226,7431,187—

Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 41,432 theft incidents.

Neighborhoods with the most theft (2025)

  1. Downtown 424 incidents
  2. Canton Industrial Area 300 incidents
  3. Mount Vernon 296 incidents
  4. Inner Harbor 295 incidents
  5. Harbor East 255 incidents
  6. Middle East 211 incidents
  7. Patterson Park Neighborhood 198 incidents
  8. Belair-Edison 185 incidents

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

Questions

How many theft incidents were reported in Baltimore in 2025?

9,318, according to Baltimore Police Department open data as mapped by TheCrimeMaps.com.

Is theft going up or down in Baltimore?

Reported theft was up 3.4% in 2025 compared with 2024, and up 38.2% compared with 2022 (rising 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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