Maryland Eviction Data
Every warrant of restitution petitioned, executed, cancelled, or expired across Maryland's 24 District Courts.
Maryland is the only state in the country that requires every District Court to publish each warrant of restitution and its outcome — petitions filed, executions, cancellations, expirations. This dashboard turns the resulting 700,000+ row dataset into something a landlord, journalist, researcher, or tenant advocate can actually read.
Heads up: this data only covers the warrant phase — it does NOT include initial FTPR filings, summons, judgments, or any pre-warrant court events. The numbers below describe what happens after a landlord has already won judgment and asked for the writ.
- Source
- Open Data Maryland
- Coverage
- All 24 Maryland jurisdictions
- Date range
- Jan 2023 → Aug 2026
- Sync cadence
- Every morning, 04:00 ET
- Last sync
- Oct 11, 2026
- Publishing lag
- ~1–3 months
The state publishes new events as court clerks key them in. Most-recent months under-count until clerks catch up.
Statewide indicators (Last 12 months)
Monthly events
Every warrant-of-restitution event reported by Maryland's District Courts, stacked by outcome. Petitions are the top of the funnel; executions, cancellations, and expirations are how those petitions resolve.
By jurisdiction
A heat map of all 24 Maryland jurisdictions. Switch the metric to compare warrant petitions, executions, or cancellations within the selected period.
What happens to a warrant petition?
Of every warrant of restitution petitioned in the selected period, what share is executed by the sheriff, cancelled before execution (tenant paid, settled, or moved out), or expires? Note: not every petition has resolved yet — pending warrants are not in this dataset.
Case mix
The composition of Maryland's warrant petitions in the selected period. Failure-to-Pay-Rent dominates — but hold-overs, wrongful detainers, and lease breaches all show up.
Composition (selected period)
- FAILURE TO PAY RENT76,575 · 95.3%
- TENANT HOLDING OVER1,325 · 1.6%
- WRONGFUL DETAINER1,201 · 1.5%
- FAILURE TO PAY RENT - HOUSING AUTHORITY713 · 0.9%
- BREACH OF LEASE509 · 0.6%
Top 10 jurisdictions
By the metric you choose, in the selected period. Use the sort dropdown to compare on volume, executions, cancellations, or rate.
| # | Jurisdiction | Petitions | Executed | Cancelled | Share of top |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BALTIMORE | 23,174 | 2,069 | 16,650 | 100% |
| 2 | BALTIMORE CITY | 22,467 | 2,452 | 7,478 | 97% |
| 3 | PRINCE GEORGE'S | 12,797 | 2,074 | 12,317 | 55% |
| 4 | MONTGOMERY | 6,035 | 638 | 3,998 | 26% |
| 5 | ANNE ARUNDEL | 5,323 | 454 | 2,370 | 23% |
| 6 | HOWARD | 2,331 | 214 | 2,028 | 10% |
| 7 | HARFORD | 1,892 | 250 | 1,060 | 8% |
| 8 | WASHINGTON | 1,117 | 262 | 504 | 5% |
| 9 | WICOMICO | 1,006 | 230 | 630 | 4% |
| 10 | CHARLES | 940 | 154 | 775 | 4% |
Top 25 tenant ZIP codes
ZIP codes with the most warrant petitions in the selected period. Tenant ZIP is clerk-entered; not every record has one. Useful for housing-stability research and outreach targeting.
| # | ZIP | Petitions | Volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 21221 | 4,350 | |
| 2 | 21234 | 2,311 | |
| 3 | 21215 | 2,286 | |
| 4 | 21206 | 2,279 | |
| 5 | 21207 | 2,077 | |
| 6 | 21061 | 2,050 | |
| 7 | 21229 | 1,834 | |
| 8 | 21117 | 1,723 | |
| 9 | 21220 | 1,687 | |
| 10 | 21030 | 1,669 | |
| 11 | 21216 | 1,530 | |
| 12 | 21222 | 1,493 | |
| 13 | 21237 | 1,490 | |
| 14 | 21244 | 1,483 | |
| 15 | 20746 | 1,467 | |
| 16 | 21239 | 1,395 | |
| 17 | 21225 | 1,380 | |
| 18 | 21202 | 1,300 | |
| 19 | 21218 | 1,211 | |
| 20 | 21201 | 1,202 | |
| 21 | 20747 | 1,183 | |
| 22 | 21217 | 1,138 | |
| 23 | 20785 | 1,120 | |
| 24 | 20748 | 1,110 | |
| 25 | 20745 | 1,073 |
Year-over-year warrant petitions
One line per year, x-axis the month. A higher line means a busier court that year. The 2023 → 2024 → 2025 trajectory hints at where eviction pressure is heading.
Source: District Court of Maryland Eviction Case Data (mandated by 2022 Maryland law; published via Open Data Maryland).
Scope of this dataset: The 2022 law requires reporting of warrants of restitution and their outcomes — not initial FTPR filings or judgments. Every record in this dashboard is one of four event types: petition for warrant filed, warrant return — evicted, warrant return — cancelled, or warrant return — expired. So when you see “petitions” here, that means a landlord has already won a judgment and is asking the court for the writ to physically remove the tenant.
Refresh + publishing lag: EvictPro syncs deltas from the source dataset every morning at 04:00 ET via the Open Data API. When the state ships new records, we have them within 24 hours. However, the state itself publishes events on a ~1–3 month lag — court clerks enter each warrant manually, and the most-recent months always under-count until clerks catch up. Last successful sync: Oct 11, 2026 (status: SUCCESS). Latest court event in our copy of the dataset: Aug 31, 2026.
Filters: Time period, jurisdiction, and case type filters are sticky in the URL — share the URL and recipients see the same view.
Important caveats:
- The state notes that the data reflects “when the data is entered by the clerk,” not always the calendar date the action occurred. Recent months may under-count until clerks finish data entry.
- Petitions and outcomes don't reconcile inside a calendar window — a warrant petitioned in Q4 may not return service until Q1. Resolution rates are most reliable when read across the full dataset, not a single month.
- Some recent petitions are still pending — the executed/cancelled/ expired shares add up to less than 100% of petitions until everything resolves.
- Tenant ZIP codes are clerk-entered and missing on a fraction of records. The “Top 25 ZIPs” table reflects only records with a valid 5-digit tenant ZIP.
- “Baltimore” alone (without “City”/“County”) is treated as Baltimore County for the choropleth, since the 24 jurisdictions include both.