High School #13
This site is about the opening of the 13th Howard County High School in Jessup, MD off Mission Rd.
Last Updated: 8/21/2023
Timeline: Ribbon Cutting
Jessup and Elkridge Crime Statistics

The 2017 crime statistics were pulled from the Howard County Government web page.  The purpose of this report is to compare crime rates along different stretches of the Route 1 corridor in order to dismiss, as some have proclaimed, that Jessup is a high crime area.

I have broken up the crime reports into 3 zones:
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Zone 1 (Elkridge North): Above Rt. 100 to NE county line (Parcel 1, Parcel 2, Parcel 3)

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Zone 2 (Elkridge South): Below Rt. 100 but above Rt. 175 (Parcel 4, Parcel 5)

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Zone 3 (Jessup): Below Rt 175 but above Rt. 32 (Parcel 6, Parcel 7, Parcel 8, Parcel 9)

The northeast border for each of these zones is I-95 and the southwest border is the Anne Arundel county line.

If you add up the parcels from each of these three zones, you would get the following…

 Crime

 Zone 1

 Zone 2

Zone 3

 Aggravated Assault

 24

 8

 12

 Burglary

 41

 83

 13

 Disorderly Conduct

 6

 7

 10

 Drug Violation

 97

 31

 48

 Homicide

 0

 0

 1

 Rape

 4

 0

 1

 Robbery

 3

 5

 6

 Theft

 114

 89

 111

 Vandalism

 66

 28

 38

 Vehicle Theft

 20

 16

 22

Weapons Violation

5

1

1
As can be seen, the area where the proposed high school would go (Zone 3) is not really worse, and is in fact better in most of the crime categories than Elkridge (Zone 1 or 2).