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Baltimore recorded fewest youth homicides in a decade in first half of 2025
Baltimore City officials and community groups have invested in prevention programs meant to divert kids away from gun violence.
Anti-violence programs, such as the Group Violence Reduction Strategy, have also brought down the number of youth homicides in Baltimore.
Maryland’s population grew more diverse. Look up your county in these charts.
Charts show the demographic breakdown and change in every Maryland county, plus Baltimore, in 2024.
White population declined across Maryland. These 7 counties saw gains.
Growth in the Hispanic and Asian communities drove Maryland's population growth, offsetting decreases in the white population.
Downtown Frederick on Tuesday, February 18, 2025.
These Maryland colleges would be hardest hit if they lose international students
More than a third of Maryland’s roughly 24,000 international students were from China last school year.
From left: Montgomery College had 1,257 international students; The University of Maryland, College Park, had 6,627; and almost half of the international students studying in Maryland last year — 10,054 of them — were at Johns Hopkins University.
Baltimore’s homicide rate dropped to a historic low last month, defied racial trends
Baltimore ended April with five homicides, the lowest monthly total in recent memory.
April marked the lowest total of any month in any year dating back to 2012.
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