Baltimore, Maryland · Neighborhood crime trends

Baltimore Southwestern District (south)

Name: Crimes per 1,000 residents by neighborhood, Southwestern District (south), Q1 2022 to Q2 2026
Creator: CrimesLog

18 neighborhoods - a quarterly race to the lowest crime rate.

Crime Trends: Neighborhoods compared - each quarter from Q1 2022

Baltimore as a whole averaged 22.7 crimes for every 1,000 residents per quarter in Q2 2026, while south Southwestern District averaged 20.4, hence it is generally safer when all crimes are considered.

How do the 18 neighborhoods of south Southwestern District compare? In Q2 2026 the police recorded 681 crimes across them, 20.4 for every 1,000 residents. That is 1.3% above a year earlier and 17.0% above Q1 2022, the first quarter we track.

Beechfield has the lowest rate of the everyday neighborhoods (9.5 per 1,000), followed by Yale Heights (14.6) and Allendale (16.3). Morrell Park has the highest (33.9).

Use the RACE CHARTS below to watch all 18 BALTIMORE SOUTHWESTERN DISTRICT (SOUTH) NEIGHBORHOODs race across 18 quarter periods from Q1 2022 to Q2 2026 - one crime category at a time or all together. The race chart can be used to compare average crime rates by category against Baltimore's average.

Neighborhood boundaries are defined by Baltimore City (Open Baltimore) and simplified by CrimesLog.

A little history

Southwestern District (south) in Baltimore. Baltimore was designated an independent city by the Constitution of Maryland in 1851, and it does not sit under the jurisdiction of any county. Southwestern District (south) lies in southwest Baltimore, one of nine geographical regions into which the city's neighborhoods are divided. Several of its neighborhoods, such as Beechfield and Westgate, sit along the Baltimore County line.

Notable neighborhoods in Baltimore's Southwestern District (south) include:

Irvington and Yale Heights. Irvington lies between Yale Heights to the west and Gwynns Falls to the east. It was historically nicknamed "Skulltown" for its three large cemeteries. Yale Heights lies between Beechfield to the west and Irvington to the east. Most of its homes were built in 1955 as a development of two-bedroom brick townhouses.

Gwynns Falls and Westgate. Gwynns Falls shares its name with a stream that runs through Baltimore County and Baltimore City, and the neighborhood lies east of Irvington. Westgate is located between Baltimore County to the west and the neighborhood of Ten Hills to the east, with the city line forming its western boundary.

Lowest rate (everyday)

Beechfield

9.5 crimes per 1,000 residents, Q2 2026

Highest rate

Morrell Park

33.9 per 1,000, Q2 2026

Whole area, Q2 2026

20.4 per 1,000

1.3% above a year earlier ·

17.0% above Q1 2022

Compared

18 neighborhoods

33,368 residents · 18 quarters

Baltimore Southwestern District (south) neighborhood quarterly crime race

Press ▶︎ to watch Q1 2022 to Q2 2026. Tick one crime category or several; hover a bar for the neighborhood. Property crimes includes burglaries and thefts.

Crime categories

Oaklee Village Apartments Sign on Southwestern Boulevard Near Custer Road, Baltimore, MD 21229, Oaklee

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Gundry-Glass Hospital (2015), Ten Hills — **Ten Hills** · Gundry-Glass Hospital (2015)
Photo: Baltimore Heritage, CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

"Welcome to Oaklee" Sign in Median, Southwestern Boulevard West of Custer Road, Baltimore, MD 21229, Violetville — **Violetville** · "Welcome to Oaklee" Sign in Median, Southwestern Boulevard West of Custer Road, Baltimore, MD 21229
Photo: Baltimore Heritage from Baltimore, MD, USA, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons

Mount Saint Joseph High School Tower, Irvington — **Irvington** · Mount Saint Joseph High School Tower
Photo: Mafarkafut, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons

Vacant Rowhouses, Shipley Hill, Baltimore, Shipley Hill — **Shipley Hill** · Vacant Rowhouses, Shipley Hill, Baltimore
Photo: Baltimore Heritage, CC0 · Flickr

Tremont Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 1904, Tremont — **Tremont** · Tremont Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 1904
Photo: trialsanderrors, CC BY 2.0 · Flickr

Carrollton-viaduct, Millhill — **Millhill** · Carrollton-viaduct
Photo: William Edmund Barrett, Historic American Engineering Record, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Median, Southwestern Boulevard Near Wilkens Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21223, Violetville — **Violetville** · Median, Southwestern Boulevard Near Wilkens Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21223
Photo: Baltimore Heritage, CC0 · Flickr

How neighborhoods moved each quarter

2022

Whole-area crime rate 17.4 to 22.0 per 1,000 (high: Q2 2022).

Big moves (4+ places in a quarter): moved up Westgate 8th→3rd (Q2) Boyd-Booth 12th→8th (Q2) moved down Oaklee 3rd→10th (Q2) Saint Agnes 16th→12th (Q2) Wilhelm Park 9th→14th (Q2) Tremont 11th→16th (Q2) Boyd-Booth 8th→12th (Q3) Tremont 16th→7th (Q4) Saint Agnes 13th→18th (Q4)

2023

Whole-area crime rate 20.9 to 28.1 per 1,000 (high: Q2 2023).

Big moves (4+ places in a quarter): moved up Wilhelm Park 11th→3rd (Q1) Carroll-South Hilton 8th→4th (Q1) moved down Yale Heights 1st→5th (Q1) Ten Hills 2nd→7th (Q1) Irvington 6th→10th (Q1) Saint Agnes 18th→13th (Q1) Tremont 7th→17th (Q1) Oaklee 9th→1st (Q2) Irvington 10th→4th (Q2) Boyd-Booth 12th→5th (Q2) Westgate 2nd→7th (Q2) Carroll-South Hilton 4th→8th (Q2) Wilhelm Park 3rd→11th (Q2) moved up Ten Hills 6th→1st (Q3) Westgate 7th→3rd (Q3) Saint Josephs 9th→5th (Q3) moved down Oaklee 1st→7th (Q3) Irvington 4th→8th (Q3) Morrell Park 17th→11th (Q3) Boyd-Booth 5th→16th (Q3) Saint Agnes 13th→18th (Q3) Saint Agnes 18th→14th (Q4)

2024

Whole-area crime rate 18.7 to 22.4 per 1,000 (high: Q2 2024).

Big moves (4+ places in a quarter): moved up Boyd-Booth 13th→9th (Q1) Tremont 18th→11th (Q1) moved down Carroll-South Hilton 9th→15th (Q1) Carroll-South Hilton 15th→9th (Q2) Tremont 11th→17th (Q2) Irvington 11th→7th (Q3) Oaklee 8th→12th (Q3) Saint Agnes 18th→14th (Q3) Wilhelm Park 13th→5th (Q4) Allendale 4th→8th (Q4) Irvington 7th→12th (Q4) Boyd-Booth 10th→15th (Q4)

2025

Whole-area crime rate 18.3 to 21.4 per 1,000 (high: Q3 2025).

Big moves (4+ places in a quarter): moved up Boyd-Booth 15th→4th (Q1) Violetville 11th→6th (Q1) Saint Agnes 14th→9th (Q1) moved down Carroll-South Hilton 6th→11th (Q1) Wilhelm Park 5th→13th (Q1) Morrell Park 10th→16th (Q1) Gwynns Falls 13th→17th (Q1) Allendale 10th→4th (Q2) Westgate 1st→5th (Q2) Carroll-South Hilton 11th→6th (Q2) moved up Tremont 15th→10th (Q2) Boyd-Booth 4th→11th (Q2) Saint Agnes 9th→13th (Q2) moved down Oaklee 8th→15th (Q2) Oaklee 15th→10th (Q3) Carroll-South Hilton 5th→10th (Q4) Tremont 11th→15th (Q4)

2026

Whole-area crime rate 14.1 to 20.4 per 1,000 (high: Q2 2026). 2 quarters so far.

Big moves (4+ places in a quarter): moved up Wilhelm Park 12th→4th (Q1) Morrell Park 13th→7th (Q1) moved down Allendale 4th→9th (Q1) Gwynns Falls 16th→11th (Q1) Oaklee 7th→13th (Q1) Saint Agnes 14th→18th (Q1) Violetville 10th→3rd (Q2) Westgate 2nd→8th (Q2) Boyd-Booth 14th→9th (Q2) Saint Agnes 18th→12th (Q2) Wilhelm Park 4th→13th (Q2) Morrell Park 7th→15th (Q2)

Reported Safety Incidents

In Q2 2026: property incidents were 38% (262), violent incidents were 35% (236), vehicle crimes were 27% (182) and public order incidents were 0% (1).

Recorded crime here is grouped into violent crime, property crime (burglary and theft), vehicle crime and public order offences, so you can compare how safe each neighborhood is for the kind of crime that matters to you.

Places we left out, and places to read with care

No place is left out: every neighborhood in this race has residents to count.

Tremont (38.4 per 1,000 from 13 crimes among 339 residents), Saint Agnes (26.9 per 1,000 from 13 crimes among 484 residents), Oaklee (21.5 per 1,000 from 11 crimes among 511 residents), Boyd-Booth (21.3 per 1,000 from 11 crimes among 516 residents), Wilhelm Park (29.2 per 1,000 from 17 crimes among 582 residents), Gwynns Falls (33.8 per 1,000 from 24 crimes among 711 residents), Shipley Hill (35.5 per 1,000 from 38 crimes among 1,071 residents), Millhill (50.7 per 1,000 from 62 crimes among 1,223 residents), Carroll-South Hilton (21.8 per 1,000 from 32 crimes among 1,468 residents), Ten Hills (9.0 per 1,000 from 16 crimes among 1,776 residents), Saint Josephs (14.9 per 1,000 from 31 crimes among 2,082 residents), Westgate (19.1 per 1,000 from 41 crimes among 2,147 residents) and Violetville (13.3 per 1,000 from 29 crimes among 2,180 residents) are places with few residents (under 3,000): a rate on so few people says little about living there, so they are not named as the lowest or highest.

The 18 neighborhoods on the map

Southwestern District (south) is made of 18 neighborhoods compared here, each in its own colour on the map. They are the Neighborhood Statistical Areas of Baltimore City (Open Baltimore), grouped into police districts by CrimesLog: 33,368 residents between them.

Allendale
Beechfield
Boyd-Booth
Carroll-South Hilton
Gwynns Falls
Irvington
Millhill
Morrell Park
Oaklee
Saint Agnes
Saint Josephs
Shipley Hill
Ten Hills
Tremont
Violetville
Westgate
Wilhelm Park
Yale Heights

All 18 neighborhoods, Q2 2026

Crimes per 1,000 residents, Q2 2026, lowest first. The last two columns compare with Q1 2022.
#	Neighborhood	Residents	All	Violent	Property	Vehicle	Public order	Rate vs Q1 2022	Places gained
1	Ten Hills †	1,776	9.0	1.7	5.1	2.3	0.0	33%	–
2	Beechfield	3,882	9.5	1.8	3.4	4.4	0.0	16%	2
3	Violetville †	2,180	13.3	4.6	4.6	4.1	0.0	48%	10
4	Yale Heights	2,672	14.6	3.4	3.4	7.9	0.0	105%	2
5	Saint Josephs †	2,082	14.9	5.3	3.4	6.2	0.0	24%	1
6	Allendale	3,738	16.3	7.0	6.2	3.2	0.0	60%	1
7	Irvington	4,236	18.6	7.8	5.9	5.0	0.0	1%	3
8	Westgate †	2,147	19.1	7.5	5.6	6.0	0.0	14%	–
9	Boyd-Booth †	516	21.3	5.8	13.6	1.9	0.0	15%	3
10	Oaklee †	511	21.5	7.8	7.8	5.9	0.0	175%	7
11	Carroll-South Hilton †	1,468	21.8	9.5	4.8	7.5	0.0	39%	4
12	Saint Agnes †	484	26.9	10.3	14.5	2.1	0.0	7%	4
13	Wilhelm Park †	582	29.2	5.2	10.3	13.8	0.0	70%	4
14	Gwynns Falls †	711	33.8	7.0	16.9	8.4	1.4	23%	4
15	Morrell Park	3,750	33.9	12.8	14.7	6.4	0.0	25%	1
16	Shipley Hill †	1,071	35.5	11.2	15.9	8.4	0.0	17%	1
17	Tremont †	339	38.4	17.7	11.8	8.8	0.0	63%	6
18	Millhill †	1,223	50.7	17.2	28.6	4.9	0.0	77%	3

† Tremont, Saint Agnes, Oaklee, Boyd-Booth, Wilhelm Park, Gwynns Falls, Shipley Hill, Millhill, Carroll-South Hilton, Ten Hills, Saint Josephs, Westgate and Violetville are places with few residents. A rate on a very small number of residents or crimes is not comparable with the others.

Photographs

15 photographs of the 18 neighborhoods run along the reel; click one to see it full size. Each is credited here and under the large view.

All 15 photographs and their credits

Ten Hills · Gundry-Glass Hospital (2015). Photo: Baltimore Heritage, CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Violetville · "Welcome to Oaklee" Sign in Median, Southwestern Boulevard West of Custer Road, Baltimore, MD 21229. Photo: Baltimore Heritage from Baltimore, MD, USA, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Irvington · Mount Saint Joseph High School Tower. Photo: Mafarkafut, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Oaklee · Oaklee Village Apartments Sign on Southwestern Boulevard Near Custer Road, Baltimore, MD 21229. Photo: Baltimore Heritage from Baltimore, MD, USA, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Shipley Hill · Vacant Rowhouses, Shipley Hill, Baltimore. Photo: Baltimore Heritage, CC0 · Flickr
Tremont · Tremont Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 1904. Photo: trialsanderrors, CC BY 2.0 · Flickr
Millhill · Carrollton-viaduct. Photo: William Edmund Barrett, Historic American Engineering Record, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Violetville · Median, Southwestern Boulevard Near Wilkens Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21223. Photo: Baltimore Heritage, CC0 · Flickr
Millhill · Saint Benedict Church (1933; Fr. Michael McInerney, Architect), 2612 Wilkens Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21223. Photo: Baltimore Heritage, CC0 · Flickr
Millhill · Saint Benedict Church (1933; Fr. Michael McInerney, Architect), 2612 Wilkens Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21223. Photo: Baltimore Heritage, CC0 · Flickr
Millhill · Fr. Pascal Center St. Benedict Hall (1955), Saint Benedict Church (1933; Fr. Michael McInerney, Architect), 2612 Wilkens Avenue, Baltimore. Photo: Baltimore Heritage, CC0 · Flickr
Millhill · Saint Benedict Church (1933; Fr. Michael McInerney, Architect), 2612 Wilkens Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21223. Photo: Baltimore Heritage, CC0 · Flickr
Millhill · Frederick Elementary School (1981), 2501 Frederick Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21223. Photo: Baltimore Heritage, CC0 · Flickr
Millhill · Sidewalk to New Addition Entrance, Frederick Elementary School (1981), 2501 Frederick Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21223. Photo: Baltimore Heritage, CC0 · Flickr
Millhill · Frederick Elementary School (1981), 2501 Frederick Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21223. Photo: Baltimore Heritage, CC0 · Flickr

Sources and notes

CrimesLog sources crime incident data published by the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) through the City of Baltimore Open Data Hub, containing public sector information made available under the City of Baltimore Open Data Terms of Service.

Population: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates (public domain).

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Neighborhood boundaries are the Neighborhood Statistical Areas defined by Baltimore City (Open Baltimore), grouped into police districts by CrimesLog and simplified by CrimesLog. The photographs are credited under each picture.

Rates are recorded crimes per 1,000 residents, quarter by quarter; where a neighborhood has fewer than 100 residents the rate would be worked out on 100 (those places are left out of the race). A count of recorded crime is not a verdict on any neighborhood.