Fairmount Heights is a town of 1,790 in Prince George's County, about 6 miles east of downtown Washington · Updated November 2026
Is Fairmount Heights, MD safe?
Crime in Fairmount Heights is high, with an overall CrimeGrade™ of F. Most US neighborhoods have far less: 99% of Americans live in neighborhoods with less crime than Fairmount Heights. Violent and property crime both grade F here.
F
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 0 of 1,000Less safe than nearly all US neighborhoodsi What this means
1% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Fairmount Heights as a whole, and 99% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Fairmount Heights scores 0.
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 Fairmount Heights, MD at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Fairmount Heights, 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 Fairmount Heights
Car thefts and acts of vandalism both run high. In Fairmount Heights, each runs at more than triple the US rate: 17.7 car thefts and 23.7 acts of vandalism a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.7 and 5.5 nationally.
Crime rates and types in Fairmount Heights
CrimeGrade™ estimates Fairmount Heights has about 103 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, more than double the rate for the US as a whole and more than double the rate for 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 Fairmount Heights, about 35% of everything reported.
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 Fairmount Heights
Fairmount Heights has its own police department, and these figures come from its reports, 2022 to 2024.
Car thefts happen most often on streets and sidewalks: 44% of them, against 27% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Car theft
Streets and sidewalks (44%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (39%)
Night (midnight to 6 am)
Shares of the crimes reported to police, 2022 to 2024. Reports with no time recorded are left out of the times.
How Fairmount Heights compares with nearby cities
Of the 10 cities closest to Fairmount Heights, 9 have less crime. Cheverly and Cottage City have the least.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Fairmount Heights. Beside each overall CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with cities of similar size and density, Fairmount Heights has more crime than 99% of them.
Crime costs Fairmount Heights about $5,022 a year per household, counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, more than triple 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 $14 million a year, or $8,085 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$1.4 million
$793
Rape
$77,000
$43
Robbery
$340,000
$188
Assault
$480,000
$270
Burglary
$50,000
$28
Theft
$330,000
$185
Vehicle theft
$490,000
$272
Arson
$9,700
$5
Vandalism
$300,000
$167
Total
$3.5 million
$1,952
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 Fairmount Heights 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.
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
Published research on what crime costs victims and communities
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 Fairmount Heights, MD average a SchoolGrade of F: 18% of students test proficient, against 16% projected for schools like them. Overall, they meet expectations. See schools in Fairmount Heights on SchoolGrade
