Maryland Eviction Cases - Docket Events & Removals

Maryland's residential eviction docket, straight from the Maryland Judiciary. 794,432 docket events across 462,359 cases, from January 2022 through the last closed month.

Low cost

From $0.00005 per record, down to $0.00003 at Gold. Pay only for the records you actually receive - the whole register stays queryable, you are never billed for the scan behind it.

What you get

One row per docket event, with the case attached to it:

• The event - its date and type (a petition filed, a warrant served, a cancellation, an eviction) and the event comment
• Who was evicted - the tenant's city, state and ZIP
• The case - the case number and the case type (failure to pay rent, tenant holding over, wrongful detainer, breach of lease)
• The court - the county / jurisdiction and the location
• The removal - the eviction date, on the rows where a tenant was actually removed

A row is an event, not an eviction

The three counts are different, and all three are real:

• 794,432 rows - docket events (a case contributes several).
• 462,359 distinct case numbers - the cases.
• 66,958 rows with an eviction date - the tenant was actually removed.

Set evictedFrom to narrow to the third - it keeps only the removal rows and drops the rest.

Filter it

• County - county="Baltimore City", county="Montgomery". 24 jurisdictions in total.
• Case type - Failure to Pay Rent (764,542 events, plus 11 more in a spelling variant the filter also matches), Tenant Holding Over, Wrongful Detainer, Breach of Lease. Matched case-insensitively.
• Event type - an exact-set match (

  eventType="Petition - For Warrant of Restitution Filed"
  ; the accepted values are listed in the input schema). To find the removals, use evictedFrom (above) rather than eventType, which needs the full value

  Warrant of Restitution - Return of Service - Evicted
  to hit them.
• Case number - caseNumber is a substring match, so a stored number such as caseNumber="D-01-LT-26-106033-016" returns that one case's events; a shorter prefix (e.g. the base D-01-LT-26-106033) spans every docket number beneath it.
• Tenant city and ZIP.
• Date range on the event date, and on the eviction date.

Example inputs

The removals - cases where a tenant was actually evicted since January.

{ "evictedFrom": "2026-01-01", "maxResults": 50 }

One county's docket - combine county and case type.

{ "county": "Baltimore City", "caseType": "Failure to Pay Rent", "maxResults": 50 }

Every event on one case - the case number is the case key.

{ "caseNumber": "D-01-LT-26-106033-016" }

Where the filings are - mode=aggregate returns one count row per county; every group comes back.

{ "mode": "aggregate", "groupBy": "county" }

Or roll it up

Set mode=aggregate and get a rolled-up count by county, event type, case type, year, eviction year or city. Every group comes back - not cut off by maxResults.

Then follow the cases

• Eviction filings and removals by county, month over month.
• Every docket event on one case, in order.
• Failure-to-pay-rent vs. tenant-holding-over, side by side.
• Which ZIPs see the most removals.

Example output

One removal - county=Baltimore City, evictedFrom=2026-01-01:

{
 "platform": "md-evictions",
 "source": "maryland-eviction-docket",
 "mode": "rows",
 "groupKey": "",
 "groupCount": "",
 "groupBy": "",
 "eventDate": "2026-08-27T00:00:00.000",
 "eventType": "Warrant of Restitution - Return of Service - Evicted",
 "eventComment": "",
 "county": "Baltimore City",
 "location": "Civil",
 "tenantCity": "BALTIMORE",
 "tenantState": "MD",
 "tenantZip": "21206",
 "caseType": "Failure to Pay Rent",
 "caseNumber": "D-01-LT-26-106033-016",
 "evictedDate": "2026-08-25T00:00:00.000",
 "eventYear": "2026",
 "evictionYear": "2026",
 "sourceUpdatedAt": "2026-09-29"
}

mode=aggregate, groupBy=county - one count row per jurisdiction:

Baltimore                       279,094
Baltimore City                  152,234
Prince George's                 139,738
Montgomery                       60,757
Anne Arundel                     52,639
Howard                           24,532

Notes on the data, from the source

• Event, case, and eviction are three different things. See above.
• evictionYear is empty on most rows. It is set only on the events that led to a removal (66,958 of 794,432); use year (the event year) as the general time dimension.
• Two ways to find a removal, 24 rows apart. evictedFrom matches the 66,958 rows with an eviction date; eventType set to the full value Warrant of Restitution - Return of Service - Evicted matches 66,982 - a few eviction-event rows carry no date. evictedFrom is the safer key.
• A few case types and event types have source spelling variants (e.g. Breach Of Lease as well as Breach of Lease). The filters match case-insensitively so a query catches both.
• The register is refreshed monthly; sourceUpdatedAt carries the dataset's own refresh date.
• Tenant city names are as the court recorded them and are not normalized (BALTIMORE and Baltimore both appear), so a substring match is the right way to search.