
Rockville placed 4th out of 360 suburbs in SmartAsset's 2025 report
SmartAsset, an online consumer-focused financial information website, has released its “America’s Safest Suburbs – 2025 Study,” ranking 360 U.S. suburbs (population ≥ 5,000, within 15–45 minutes of the 100 largest U.S. cities) by overall safety based on five key metrics. Rockville, MD comes in at #4, climbing eight spots from 12th in the 2023 report.
To determine the safest suburbs, SmartAsset evaluated each location on:
Violent crime rate (incidents per 100,000 residents)
Property crime rate (incidents per 100,000 residents)
Vehicular mortality rate (traffic accident deaths per 100,000 residents)
Drug poisoning mortality rate (overdose deaths per 100,000 residents)
Percentage of adults engaging in excessive drinking
All public-safety data come from the FBI’s 2023 Uniform Crime Reporting database (city-level) and the 2025 County Health Rankings (county-level), supplemented as needed by NeighborhoodScout.com