Montgomery County Sexual assault

Montgomery County · Sexual assault · updated 2026-11-12

In 2025, the latest complete year, Montgomery County police open data recorded 616 sexual assault incidents, 1.4% of all 43,472 incidents reported in the city that year and down 8.2% from 2024. So far in 2026, 496 sexual assault incidents have been published.

Sexual assault in Montgomery County by year

YearIncidentsPer 100Kvs prior year
2026 (year to date)496——
2025616—down 8.2%
2024671—down 8.2%
2023731—up 5.6%
2022692—up 9.8%
2021630—up 26.8%
2020497—down 13.9%

Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 6,347 sexual assault incidents.

Neighborhoods with the most sexual assault (2025)

  1. Montgomery Village 126 incidents
  2. Silver Spring 119 incidents
  3. Wheaton 118 incidents
  4. Germantown 91 incidents
  5. Rockville 75 incidents
  6. Bethesda 69 incidents
  7. Takoma Park 15 incidents

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

Questions

How many sexual assault incidents were reported in Montgomery County in 2025?

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

Is sexual assault going up or down in Montgomery County?

Reported sexual assault was down 8.2% in 2025 compared with 2024, and down 11.0% 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.

Other crime types in Montgomery County

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