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This happened even as homicides soared from 211 in 2014, to 344 in 2015 – an increase of 63%. [18] Since 2017, homicide numbers have decreased, reaching a 13 year low of 201 in 2024. Baltimore's level of violent crime is much higher than the national average.
Riot-scarred Baltimore recorded its 300th homicide of the year on Saturday, police said, up 42 percent from last year's total. Baltimore homicides top 300 for year, worst since 1999 Skip to main ...
Baltimore reported 223 homicides in 2010. The number of all violent crimes for the city has declined from 21,799 in 1993 to 9,316 in 2010. Even with stark population decline taken into account—Baltimore went from 732,968 residents in 1993 to 620,961 in 2010—the drop in violent crime was significant, falling from 3.0 incidents per 100 residents to 1.6 incidents per 100 residents.
For the 2019 population estimates used in this table, the FBI computed individual rates of growth from one year to the next for every city/town and county using 2010 decennial population counts and 2011 through 2018 population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Baltimore's homicides plummet. Baltimore recorded 201 homicides in 2024, the lowest annual total in over a decade, according to police data. It marks a 23% drop from the previous year, a downward trend that began in 2023. Nonfatal shootings also have fallen significantly.
The city’s homicides surpassed 300 in 2022 for the eighth year running as gun violence remains elevated despite repeated promises from elected officials and new initiatives aimed at curbing the ...
Across the city, homicides are down about 24% compared to this time last year. That’s on top of a roughly 20% decline in 2023, when Baltimore recorded less than 300 homicides for the first time in nearly a decade, ending a surge that began in 2015 following the death of Freddie Gray and widespread civil unrest.
On May 8, 2012, the city of Baltimore officially added Barnes to their 2010 homicide count. This increased the year's homicide total from 196 to 197. Considered to be nothing more than an administrative move, it still did not push the total count to 200. 2010 had been the first year since the 1970s in which the city of Baltimore recorded fewer ...