The Safest and Most Dangerous Places in Maryland Heights, MO
Maryland Heights is a city of 28,700 in St. Louis County, about 15 miles northwest of downtown St. Louis · Updated November 2026
Is Maryland Heights, MO safe?
Yes. Most US neighborhoods have little crime, and Maryland Heights has less than most of them: its overall CrimeGrade™ is A, safer than the neighborhoods where 67% of Americans live. Violent and property crime both grade A here. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Maryland Heights run from A+ to B+, so check the map below.
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Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 901 of 1,000Safer than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
67% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Maryland Heights as a whole, and 33% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Maryland Heights scores 901.
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 Maryland Heights, MO at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Maryland 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 Maryland Heights
Car thefts happen in parking lots and garages far more often than nationally. In Maryland Heights, 58% of reported car thefts happen in parking lots and garages, against 23% nationally.
Aggravated assault runs low. Maryland Heights has 1.1 aggravated assaults a year per 1,000 residents, less than half the US rate of 2.6.
The safest and least safe parts of Maryland Heights
Every part of Maryland Heights where people live grades A or B on the national scale. Grades across Maryland Heights run from A+ to B+; 84% of residents live in areas with less crime than the typical US neighborhood.
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A or B 100%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Within Maryland Heights, the west side has the least crime and the center the most.
Is crime going up in Maryland Heights?
Reported crime in Maryland Heights has fallen since 2019: violent crime is down 20% and property crime down 53%. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 1.8 to 1.5 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 25 to 12 (US: 18). In 2024 alone, violent crime fell 33% and property crime fell 28%.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
Maryland HeightsUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police agencies that serve Maryland Heights. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Maryland Heights
Violent, US
Property, Maryland Heights
Property, US
2016
-2%
+4%
-38%
+15%
2017
+39%
+4%
-24%
+12%
2018
+66%
+0%
-9%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
+31%
+4%
-13%
-8%
2021
-2%
+6%
-5%
-10%
2022
+48%
+5%
-5%
-6%
2023
+20%
+2%
-35%
-7%
2024
-20%
-4%
-53%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Maryland Heights
CrimeGrade™ estimates Maryland Heights has about 25 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 34% less than the US as a whole and 42% less than Missouri.
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 Maryland Heights, about 36% of everything reported, but assault costs more, because each one does more harm.
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 Maryland Heights
Maryland Heights has its own police department, and these figures come from its reports, 2022 to 2024.
In Maryland Heights, 58% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often in parking lots and garages: 66% of them, against 31% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (58%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Parking lots and garages (58%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (66%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Parking lots and garages (52%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (40%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Shares of the crimes reported to police, 2022 to 2024. Reports with no time recorded are left out of the times.
How Maryland Heights compares with nearby cities
Maryland Heights has less crime than 7 of its 8 nearest cities; only Creve Coeur has less.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Maryland 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, Maryland Heights is safer than 77% of them.
Two things set Maryland Heights apart: it has 225 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole, and 17.7 stores and restaurants for every 1,000 residents, against 10.5 nationally. Places like that tend to report more theft and robbery, yet theft runs lower here than that would suggest.
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft and robbery.225 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher than for 99% of US city residents
Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft.17.7 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Higher than for 94% of US city residents
Walk GradeBestNeighborhood's grade for getting through daily life on foot, traced along real walking routes to shops, schools and parks. Walkable places tend to report more theft and assault. 88% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D (14 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 64% of US city residents
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Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.4.0 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher than for 94% of US city residents
Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson.4.2% of homesUS: 7.1%Lower than for 72% of US city residents
Lit at nightSatellite images show which neighborhoods are lit at night, a sign of busy streets and businesses. Brightly lit places tend to report more theft and vandalism.99% where people liveUS: 78%Higher than for 62% of US city residents
These traits tend to go with more or less crime; none of them causes it on its own. Sources: Census job counts and housing figures, OpenStreetMap and Overture business listings, CrimeGrade™ parking estimates, NASA night-light imagery, US Forest Service tree cover, EPA transit data and BestNeighborhood's Walk Grade.
What crime costs Maryland Heights
Crime costs Maryland Heights about $581 a year per household, counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, 52% 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 $22 million a year, or $776 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$1.3 million
$45
Rape
$550,000
$19
Robbery
$130,000
$4
Assault
$2.0 million
$69
Burglary
$290,000
$10
Theft
$1.3 million
$45
Vehicle theft
$1.2 million
$41
Arson
$17,000
$1
Vandalism
$1.0 million
$36
Total
$7.8 million
$270
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 Maryland 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 Maryland Heights, MO average a SchoolGrade of B+: 49% of students test proficient, against 45% projected for schools like them. Overall, they meet expectations. See schools in Maryland Heights on SchoolGrade
