Adams Morgan, Washington, DC Violent Crime Rates and Maps
Adams Morgan is a neighborhood of 16,000 residents in Washington, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is violent crime in Adams Morgan?
Adams Morgan grades C+ for violent crime, with more of it than the neighborhoods where 84% of Americans live. Assaults make up 79% of it, and most of those are simple assaults, which involve no weapon and no serious injury. Washington as a whole grades F for violent crime.
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Violent crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 530 of 1,000More violent crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
16% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more violent crime than Adams Morgan as a whole, and 84% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a violent crime safety score of 860, a CrimeGrade™ of A. Adams Morgan scores 530.
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 violent crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its violent crime with the people who spend time there, on one national scale, from green for the least to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy downtown or nightlife strip can show red while the homes around it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a solid connection. Compare high speed internet in Adams Morgan, Washington, DC at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Adams Morgan in Washington, 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 about violent crime in Adams Morgan
Aggravated assaults are less common than the crime level suggests. Violent crime in Adams Morgan runs 34% above the US rate, but aggravated assaults run 41% below it: 1.5 a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.6 nationally.
Robberies run high for a neighborhood with a C for violent crime. Adams Morgan has 3.6 robberies a year per 1,000 residents; for the typical resident of a US neighborhood graded C for violent crime, the figure is 1.6.
How Adams Morgan compares within Washington
Violent crime varies widely across Adams Morgan: 63% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and 24% in areas graded D or F. Violent crime grades across Adams Morgan run from B+ to F.
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A or B 63%C 13%D or F 24%
Share of residents, by the violent crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Adams Morgan has less violent crime than 25 of the 38 neighborhoods in Washington. It covers much of the Foggy Bottom, Adams Morgan, and Georgetown areas.
Violent crime rates and types in Adams Morgan
CrimeGrade™ estimates Adams Morgan has about 18 reported violent crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 34% more than the US as a whole and 45% less than Washington as a whole.
All violent crime
Assaults
Robbery
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. Violent crime here includes simple assaults, which the FBI's violent crime rate leaves out.
Assault is the most common violent crime in Adams Morgan, about 79% of the total.
Each CrimeGrade™ here compares a violent crime with the people who spend time in an area, not only the people who live there. 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.
Violent crime in Adams Morgan and nearby neighborhoods
Adams Morgan has less violent crime than 6 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Adams Morgan. Beside each violent crime CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with neighborhoods of similar size and density, Adams Morgan has more violent crime than 56% of them.
Density, walkability and nightlife in Adams Morgan
Among the traits that tend to go with violent crime, two set Adams Morgan apart: it has 100% of its residents in dense blocks, against 24% nationally, and a Walk Grade of A+ (93 of 100) on BestNeighborhood, against 21 for the US as a whole. It also combines many bars with dense blocks: places with both tend to report more assault and robbery than places with only one of them, and they run high here.
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery.100% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 97% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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 assault. 96% of residents here live in walkable areas.A+ (93 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 95% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Bars and nightlifeBars, lounges, clubs and casinos. Places with more bars tend to report more assault and robbery.1.9 per 1,000 residentsUS: 0.6Higher than for 91% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Adams Morgan: C- (26 of 100).61 trips an hourUS: noneHigher than for 90% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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 violent crime costs Adams Morgan
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, violent crime costs Adams Morgan about $23 million a year, or $1,460 per resident. The costs that reach a bill, such as medical care, lost work and the justice system, come to about $6.1 million, or $378 per resident.
Billed cost of violent crime per resident, per year
How CrimeGrade™ works
The violent crime CrimeGrade™ covers murder, rape, robbery and assault, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most, on one scale for the whole country.
It weighs each violent crime against the people who spend time in an area, so a busy downtown is graded on its workers and visitors as well as its residents.
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.
