MD
Harford Community College
0.99 incidents / 1,000 students
Bel Air, MD · Clery Act 2024 · Public
Harford Community College
Across 2022–2024, Harford Community College reported 6 incidents in the Clery Criminal Offenses section, and the yearly count rose over that span (largest filed category: Motor Vehicle Theft). Nearby same-state same-level comparison: College of Southern Maryland.
- 0.99
- Incidents / 1k students
- #623
- Rank of 2,072
- #22
- MD rank
- 5,067
- Enrolled students
0.99 reported score-category incidents per 1,000 students
Harford Community College reports 0.99 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 - 399% above Gadsden State Community College. Similar-enrollment scored peers: Gadsden State Community College (0.00/1k); Southern Union State Community College (0.20/1k); College of Southern Maryland (0.00/1k); Clark State College (0.00/1k); Central Arizona College (0.79/1k). Same-state same-level set also includes College of Southern Maryland (0.00/1k); Hagerstown Community College (0.59/1k); Baltimore City Community College (0.00/1k); Carroll Community College (0.60/1k); Wor-Wic Community College (1.70/1k); Frederick Community College (0.00/1k); Allegany College of Maryland (3.26/1k); Chesapeake College (0.00/1k). Largest Criminal Offenses total across filed years: Motor Vehicle Theft.
Data source U.S. Department of Education, OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
- incidents / 1,000 students
- 0.99
- of 2,072 ranked nationally
- #623
- safer than ranked campuses its size
- 70%
- Criminal Offenses, 2024
- 5
Source: U.S. Department of Education OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
Data updated August 2026
Clery Act plate
Sheet 162706 · Harford Community College 0.99/1k score rate · #623/2,072
RATE-QUIET · RANK-MID · ST-MID · ABOVE-PEER · ZERO-NONE · TREND-UP · CAT-LEAD · ENR-MID · FIRE-NONE
- RATE-QUIET 0.99/1k
- RANK-MID #623/2,072
- ST-MID #22 in state
- ABOVE-PEER Central Arizona College · +0.20
- ZERO-NONE Scored
- TREND-UP ↑ trend
- CAT-LEAD Motor Vehicle Th…
- ENR-MID 5,067
- FIRE-NONE No res filing
Nearest enrollment peer: Central Arizona College (-0.20/1k)
Harford Community College sheet RATE-QUIET · RANK-MID · ST-MID · ABOVE-PEER · ZERO-NONE · TREND-UP · CAT-LEAD · ENR-MID · FIRE-NONE · peer Central Arizona College. Codes from this campus OPE filing: score-category rate, national/state rank, named enrollment peer, zero posture, Criminal Offenses trend, lead category, enrollment band, fire filing. Not a moving recommendation.
Clery plate RATE-QUIET · RANK-MID · ST-MID · ABOVE-PEER · ZERO-NONE · TREND-UP · CAT-LEAD · ENR-MID · FIRE-NONE. Nearest similar-enrollment peer is Central Arizona College (-0.20/1k). National rank #623 of 2,072 scored campuses. Instrument codes from this campus OPE sheet; compare similarly sized peers before treating any single rate as decisive.
Harford Community College reports 0.99 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 - 399% above Gadsden State Community College. Similar-enrollment scored peers: Gadsden State Community College (0.00/1k); Southern Union State Community College (0.20/1k); College of Southern Maryland (0.00/1k); Clark State College (0.00/1k); Central Arizona College (0.79/1k). Same-state same-level set also includes College of Southern Maryland (0.00/1k); Hagerstown Community College (0.59/1k); Baltimore City Community College (0.00/1k); Carroll Community College (0.60/1k); Wor-Wic Community College (1.70/1k); Frederick Community College (0.00/1k); Allegany College of Maryland (3.26/1k); Chesapeake College (0.00/1k). Largest Criminal Offenses total across filed years: Motor Vehicle Theft.
Peer-rate neighbourhood around Harford Community College
Lowest/highest enrollment peers plus campuses nearest Harford on score-category rate. Full ladder: /rankings/safest-campuses.
- Gadsden State Community College · lowest peer 0
Gadsden State Community College — lowest peer
0 per 1,000 students
- Southern Union State Community · near 0.2
Southern Union State Community College — near
0.2 per 1,000 students
- Central Arizona College · near
Central Arizona College — near
0.79 per 1,000 students
- Harford Community College · this campus · highest
Harford Community College — this campus · highest
0.99 per 1,000 students
What this shows Neighbourhood of similar-enrollment peers around Harford Community College's 0.99/1k rate, not a full-corpus distribution reprint.
Reporting-period change
What changed in 2024
Harford Community College increased from 1 to 5 reported on-campus incidents between the 2023 and 2024 reporting years in the U.S. Department of Education OPE Campus Safety Survey.
This is a change in reported incidents, not a measure of individual safety. Enrollment, reporting practice, and category coverage can affect the count.
See national reporting-year changesSignature insight · size does not equal danger
Campus size vs reported safety rate
Among 18 MD 2-year peers in this comparison, Harford Community College is larger than 59% and safer-reporting than 18% - the larger, higher-reporting quadrant. Axes are within-sample percentiles so outliers share the same frame; a higher safety percentile means a lower Clery incidents-per-1,000 rate.
Read the chart as text
- Point 1: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 53, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 65
- Point 2: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 65, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 41
- Point 3: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 47, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 65
- Point 4: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 41, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 35
- Point 5: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 35, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 6
- Point 6: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 71, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 65
- Point 7: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 29, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 0
- Point 8: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 24, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 65
- Point 9: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 18, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 65
- Point 10: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 76, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 59
- Point 11: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 12, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 65
- Point 12: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 6, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 12
- Point 13: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 0, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 65
- Point 14: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 82, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 29
- Point 15: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 88, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 53
- Point 16: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 94, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 47
- Point 17: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 100, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 24
- Harford Community College: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 59, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 18
Read the chart as a table
| Campus | Enrollment | Rate / 1k | Size pct | Safety pct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fortis College-Landover | 566 | 0.00 | 0 | 65 |
| Garrett College | 679 | 1.47 | 6 | 12 |
| Lincoln College of Technology-Columbia | 1,258 | 0.00 | 12 | 65 |
| Cecil College | 1,749 | 0.00 | 18 | 65 |
| Chesapeake College | 2,095 | 0.00 | 24 | 65 |
| Allegany College of Maryland | 2,762 | 3.26 | 29 | 0 |
| Wor-Wic Community College | 2,941 | 1.70 | 35 | 6 |
| Carroll Community College | 3,337 | 0.60 | 41 | 35 |
| Baltimore City Community College | 4,375 | 0.00 | 47 | 65 |
| College of Southern Maryland | 5,062 | 0.00 | 53 | 65 |
| Harford Community College (this campus) | 5,067 | 0.99 | 59 | 18 |
| Hagerstown Community College | 5,085 | 0.59 | 65 | 41 |
Sample of 12 campuses from the plot (sorted by enrollment). Source: U.S. Department of Education OPE Campus Safety Survey + IPEDS enrollment. Rate = on-campus Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 students; lower is safer-reporting, not a personal-risk forecast.
What changed between 2023 and 2024
Reported on-campus incidents at Harford Community College rose from 1 to 5 (+400%). The increase shows up in Motor Vehicle Theft (0 to 4) and Burglary (0 to 1). Falling over the same period: Aggravated Assault (1 to 0).
This describes reported incidents, not crime. Clery counts move with reporting policy, awareness campaigns and how a campus staffs its security authorities, so a rise can reflect better capture of reports and a fall can reflect worse capture. One year of movement at a single campus is not a trend.
What actually gets reported at Harford Community College
Across 3 reporting years, on-campus incidents were recorded in 3 Clery Act categories here: Motor Vehicle Theft, Aggravated Assault and Burglary. Motor Vehicle Theft accounts for most of them.
The remaining 8 categories were reported with no on-campus incidents, among them Arson, Fondling, Incest and Murder / Non-Negligent Manslaughter. Under the Clery Act that zero is an affirmative report that nothing in the category occurred, not an absence of data, which is why the table below lists those rows rather than dropping them.
Counts describe incidents reported under the Clery Act for the on-campus geography. Reporting practice varies between institutions, so counts are not a direct measure of relative safety.
Crime Statistics by Year
11 categories 3 reporting years on-campus onlyHarford Community College: Criminal Offenses by year
Rising
Read the chart as text
| Period | On-campus incidents |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 0 |
| 2023 | 1 |
| 2024 | 5 |
| Crime Type | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Aggravated Assault | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Burglary | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Fondling | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Incest | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Murder / Non-Negligent Manslaughter | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Negligent Manslaughter | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Statutory Rape | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Source: US Dept of Education OPE Campus Safety Survey. Table figures show the Criminal Offenses section; other Clery tables are separate
Arrests & Disciplinary Actions
9 category-year records| Category | Year | Arrests | Discipline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drugs | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Weapons | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Weapons | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2022 | 0 | 1 |
| Liquor | 2022 | 0 | 0 |
| Weapons | 2022 | 0 | 3 |
Harford Community College vs peer institutions
Side-by-side safety scores for 3 peers of similar enrollment
Scores are $2024 Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 enrolled students (lower is fewer in those categories).
AL
Gadsden State Community College
0.00 incidents / 1,000 students
AL
Southern Union State Community College
0.20 incidents / 1,000 students
Cost context
Where Harford Community College sits on price and outcomes
At $9,234, Harford Community College's reported average net price is cheaper than 13% among 67 Maryland colleges with a reported figure. The state median is $17,140.
- $9,234
- average net price
- $17,140
- Maryland median
- 3.7×
- six-year earnings to median debt
- $5,968
- reported income-bracket spread
Aid here is steeply income-scaled. Families reporting under $30,000 of income record a net price of $7,272, while those above $110,000 record $13,240 - roughly 1.8 times as much. A published average of $9,234 therefore describes very few families well; the bracket nearest your own income is the more useful figure.
Median reported earnings six years after entry are $36,741, roughly 4.0 times a year of net price. That is a workable ratio, though it says nothing about how long the programme takes to finish. Only 39% complete within six years. Most students here do not finish, which is the single most important number on this page for anyone weighing the cost.
Average net price reflects grant and scholarship aid for aided students, not a personal offer. Earnings cover former students who received federal aid; neither measure predicts an individual's outcome.
Academic & Financial Profile
Tuition & Costs
- In-State Tuition
- $4,032
- Out-of-State Tuition
- $8,832
- Avg Net Price
- $9,234
- Median Debt
- $9,812
- Pell Grant Recipients
- 21%
Outcomes
- Median Earnings (6yr)
- $36,741
- Median Earnings (10yr)
- $44,608
- Loan Repayment (3yr)
- 62%
Source: IPEDS & College Scorecard. Methodology.
Similar Institutions
Showing 5 of 1,091 similar institutions by enrollment size.
Gadsden State Community College
Gadsden, AL · 5,071 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
Southern Union State Community College
Wadley, AL · 5,063 enrolled
Safety Score 0.20
College of Southern Maryland
La Plata, MD · 5,062 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
Clark State College
Springfield, OH · 5,077 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
Central Arizona College
Coolidge, AZ · 5,053 enrolled
Safety Score 0.79
Closest by National Rank
Harford Community College (national rank #623) sits near Marymount University (#622) and University of Washington-Bothell Campus (#624) on the scored national list, nearest by rank, not by size or state.
Nationwide campuses with similar scale or Clery rate
Two Clery-derived peer sets for Harford Community College, both outside MD so the neighborhoods are not state containment (Similar Institutions and national-rank neighbors above stay enrollment- or rank-based).
Similar enrollment (nationwide)
Gadsden State Community College
Gadsden, AL · 5,071 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
Southern Union State Community College
Wadley, AL · 5,063 enrolled
Safety score 0.20
Central Arizona College
Coolidge, AZ · 5,053 enrolled
Safety score 0.79
Barton County Community College
Great Bend, KS · 5,092 enrolled
Safety score 1.18
Holmes Community College
Goodman, MS · 5,039 enrolled
Safety score 0.40
Community College of Vermont
Montpelier, VT · 5,028 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
Hutchinson Community College
Hutchinson, KS · 5,119 enrolled
Safety score 0.98
Hawkeye Community College
Waterloo, IA · 5,120 enrolled
Safety score 0.59
Similar 2024 Clery rate (nationwide)
Salina Area Technical College
Salina, KS · 1,016 enrolled
Safety score 0.98
Meridian Technology Center
Stillwater, OK · 1,009 enrolled
Safety score 0.99
San Bernardino Valley College
San Bernardino, CA · 14,055 enrolled
Safety score 1.00
Finger Lakes Community College
Canandaigua, NY · 6,004 enrolled
Safety score 1.00
Lurleen B Wallace Community College
Andalusia, AL · 2,062 enrolled
Safety score 0.97
Southern Arkansas University Tech
Camden, AR · 991 enrolled
Safety score 1.01
Crowder College
Neosho, MO · 3,959 enrolled
Safety score 1.01
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Harford Community College safe?
Harford Community College has a safety score of 0.99 (2024 on-campus Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 enrolled students) and ranks #623 nationally out of 2,072 ranked institutions - nearest similar-enrollment comparison: Gadsden State Community College (0.00/1k). Same-state same-level set: College of Southern Maryland (0.00/1k); Hagerstown Community College (0.59/1k); Baltimore City Community College (0.00/1k); Carroll Community College (0.60/1k); Wor-Wic Community College (1.70/1k); Frederick Community College (0.00/1k); Allegany College of Maryland (3.26/1k); Chesapeake College (0.00/1k).
What crimes are reported at Harford Community College?
For calendar year 2024, Harford Community College reported Motor Vehicle Theft (4) and Burglary (1) in the Criminal Offenses section. Every other category in that section was reported at zero; other Clery tables are separate.
How does Harford Community College compare to similar schools?
Harford Community College reports 399% more 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 than Gadsden State Community College. Scored similar-enrollment peers on this page: Gadsden State Community College (0.00/1k); Southern Union State Community College (0.20/1k); College of Southern Maryland (0.00/1k); Clark State College (0.00/1k); Central Arizona College (0.79/1k). Same-state same-level set: College of Southern Maryland (0.00/1k); Hagerstown Community College (0.59/1k); Baltimore City Community College (0.00/1k); Carroll Community College (0.60/1k); Wor-Wic Community College (1.70/1k); Frederick Community College (0.00/1k); Allegany College of Maryland (3.26/1k); Chesapeake College (0.00/1k).
Does Harford Community College have fire safety data?
Harford Community College has no on-campus residential fire filing in this Clery release.
Every figure on PlainCampus is rendered directly from federal Clery Act source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on federal Clery Act source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.
PlainCampus is for informational purposes only and does not constitute safety, security, legal, or enrollment advice; the data describes reported on-campus activity, it is not a complete picture of safety at any campus and cannot predict any individual student's experience. See our appropriate use guidance.
PlainCampus is for informational purposes only and does not constitute safety, security, legal, or enrollment advice.