Chevy Chase Section Five is a village of 684 in Montgomery County, about 7 miles north of downtown Washington · Updated November 2026
Is Chevy Chase Section Five, MD safe?
Yes. An overall CrimeGrade™ of A means crime in Chevy Chase Section Five is low. Most US neighborhoods have little crime too, so Chevy Chase Section Five sits near the middle: 55% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime, and 45% in neighborhoods with less. Violent crime grades better than property crime here, A+ against B+.
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Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 858 of 1,000About as safe as the typical US neighborhoodi What this means
55% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Chevy Chase Section Five as a whole, and 45% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Chevy Chase Section Five scores 858.
Crime is concentrated in a small share of places, so most neighborhoods score high on the 0 to 1,000 scale. That is why a score in the 800s can still mean more crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its crime with the people, homes and cars there, on one national scale, from green for the least crime to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy shopping center can show red while the homes beside it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a strong connection. Compare high speed internet in Chevy Chase Section Five, MD at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Chevy Chase Section Five, and anyone thinking about buying or renting a home there.
Business and enterprise customers: this free map shows neighborhood areas. CrimeGrade™ business reports map crime at about 66-meter detail and estimate it for one address and type of business. See business reports
What stands out in Chevy Chase Section Five
Car thefts happen in parking lots and garages far more often than nationally. In Chevy Chase Section Five, 55% of reported car thefts happen in parking lots and garages, against 23% nationally.
Crime rates and types in Chevy Chase Section Five
CrimeGrade™ estimates Chevy Chase Section Five has about 13 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 66% less than the US as a whole and 69% less than Maryland.
Overall crime
Violent crime
Property crime
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. These figures include simple assaults and vandalism, which the FBI's violent and property crime rates leave out.
Theft is the most common crime in Chevy Chase Section Five, about 58% of everything reported, and it also accounts for the largest share of what crime costs here.
Each CrimeGrade™ compares a crime with what it affects: people for assaults and robbery, homes for burglary, parked cars for vehicle theft. Rates count crimes per 1,000 residents.
Select a crime's name to see its map above. CrimeGrade™ business reports map each crime at about 66-meter detail.
Where and when crime happens in Chevy Chase Section Five
The Montgomery County Police Department polices Chevy Chase Section Five, and these figures cover every place it serves, 2022 to 2024.
In Chevy Chase Section Five, 63% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often in parking lots and garages: 48% of them, against 31% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (63%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Parking lots and garages (55%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (48%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Parking lots and garages (36%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Robbery
Streets and sidewalks (44%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (49%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Shares of the crimes reported to police, 2022 to 2024. Reports with no time recorded are left out of the times; they are over one in five for burglary, car theft, theft from cars, vandalism, robbery, aggravated assault.
How Chevy Chase Section Five compares with nearby cities
Chevy Chase Section Five has more crime than 6 of its 10 nearest cities. Bethesda and North Chevy Chase have the least crime nearby.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Chevy Chase Section Five. Beside each overall CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with cities of similar size and density, Chevy Chase Section Five has more crime than 98% of them.
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Chevy Chase Section Five about $377 a year per household, 69% less than the US figure of $1,205.
Cost of crime per resident, per year
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, which comes almost entirely from violent crime, the full cost comes to about $190,000 a year, or $279 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$7,800
$11
Rape
$7,400
$11
Robbery
$3,100
$5
Assault
$5,300
$8
Burglary
$7,400
$11
Theft
$26,000
$38
Vehicle theft
$22,000
$32
Arson
$51
under $1
Vandalism
$6,200
$9
Total
$85,000
$124
How CrimeGrade™ works
A CrimeGrade™ shows how much crime an area has compared with the rest of the country, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most. Every neighborhood in the US is graded on the same scale, so a B in Chevy Chase Section Five means the same as a B anywhere else.
CrimeGrade™ starts from the crimes people report to police and measures each kind of crime against what it affects: people for assaults, homes for burglaries, parked cars for car thefts.
The rates on this page count crimes for every 1,000 people who live here, the way police departments report them. Chevy Chase Section Five is the other kind of example: few people work in, shop in or visit it, so its crime per resident looks lower than its CrimeGrade™ suggests.
Comparisons with US neighborhoods use the Census Bureau's block groups, small areas of about 1,400 residents, and count the people who live in each. The figures count crimes reported to police; many crimes, shoplifting above all, never are. Behind the grades, CrimeGrade™ tested 21,607 factors from 125 data families. For business owners, paid CrimeGrade™ location reports estimate crime at a single address for each type of business.
Where the numbers come from
Crime reports that police departments file with the FBI
State crime records and city crime data, where they are published
These are estimates of reported crime for whole areas, not a record of what happened on any one street. CrimeGrade™ updates them once a year and provides them free and without guarantee. Check local sources before you rely on them for a decision.
Schools in Chevy Chase Section Five, MD average a SchoolGrade of A+: 59% of students test proficient, against 50% projected for schools like them. Overall, they exceed expectations. See schools in Chevy Chase Section Five on SchoolGrade
