Montgomery County Fraud

Montgomery County · Fraud · updated 2026-11-12

In 2025, the latest complete year, Montgomery County police open data recorded 2,080 fraud incidents, 4.8% of all 43,472 incidents reported in the city that year and down 5.8% from 2024. So far in 2026, 1,603 fraud incidents have been published.

Fraud in Montgomery County by year

YearIncidentsPer 100Kvs prior year
2026 (year to date)1,603——
20252,080—down 5.8%
20242,207—down 13.7%
20232,556—down 23.4%
20223,335—up 37.4%
20212,428—down 9.4%
20202,681—up 18.7%

Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 24,801 fraud incidents.

Neighborhoods with the most fraud (2025)

  1. Bethesda 441 incidents
  2. Wheaton 375 incidents
  3. Silver Spring 337 incidents
  4. Rockville 319 incidents
  5. Montgomery Village 295 incidents
  6. Germantown 274 incidents
  7. Takoma Park 23 incidents

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

Questions

How many fraud incidents were reported in Montgomery County in 2025?

2,080, according to Montgomery County Police Department open data as mapped by TheCrimeMaps.com.

Is fraud going up or down in Montgomery County?

Reported fraud was down 5.8% in 2025 compared with 2024, and down 37.6% compared with 2022 (falling over three years).

Where does this data come from?

Source: Montgomery County 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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