Crime Rate in Virginia (2025)
The FBI-based Crime Index for 12 cities in Virginia, plus the statewide average. Scores run 0–100 (higher = safer) and are built from FBI Crime Data Explorer reports for 2025.
Crime Index
Crime trend in Virginia
Reported crime by offense
Statewide rates per 100,000 residents vs the US average.
Each bar is scaled to the US average for that offense — the dashed line marks 1×. Bars past it run above the national norm; hover a row for detail.
Violent crime
- Virginia
- 4.2 /100k · 377 total
- US average
- 4.1 /100k
- Virginia
- 24.5 /100k · 2,177 total
- US average
- 35.2 /100k
- Virginia
- 30.2 /100k · 2,679 total
- US average
- 47.9 /100k
- Virginia
- 150 /100k · 13,323 total
- US average
- 228 /100k
Property crime
- Virginia
- 89 /100k · 7,899 total
- US average
- 187 /100k
- Virginia
- 1,181 /100k · 104,850 total
- US average
- 1,099 /100k
- Virginia
- 114 /100k · 10,132 total
- US average
- 192 /100k
- Virginia
- 5.6 /100k · 501 total
- US average
- 9.4 /100k
How Virginia compares
Virginia against the US average for 2025.
| Metric | Virginia | United States |
|---|---|---|
| Crime Index (higher = safer) | 79B | 73C |
| Violent crime /100k | 209 | 315 |
| Property crime /100k | 1,389 | 1,487 |
| Homicide /100k | 4.3 | 4.1 |
| Total reported /100k | 1,598 | 1,802 |
Grade shown per index band (88–100 = A … 0–29 = F). Rates are reported offenses per 100,000 residents.
Reported crime rate since 2021
Reported crime rate since 2021
All 12 cities in Virginia
Ranked safest to most dangerous by Crime Index.
- 1Virginia BeachB1,574per 100k3.3homicide
- 2AlexandriaB1,779per 100k1.3homicide
- 3HarrisonburgB1,607per 100k0.0homicide
- 4ChesapeakeC1,793per 100k4.3homicide
- 5SuffolkC1,599per 100k2.8homicide
- 6LynchburgC2,025per 100k9.9homicide
- 7HamptonC3,142per 100k17.4homicide
- 8NorfolkD3,574per 100k11.7homicide
- 9RichmondD3,788per 100k22.9homicide
- 10RoanokeD4,076per 100k12.3homicide
- 11Newport NewsE3,070per 100k9.8homicide
- 12PortsmouthE4,016per 100k19.7homicide
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A high Crime Index score means lower reported crime relative to other US cities — it is not a guarantee of safety. Reported crime is not the same as actual crime. Research on the gap between crime that occurs and crime that gets reported to police — often called the "dark figure" of crime — estimates that roughly 40% of violent crime and about a third of property crime go unreported each year. Every index built on official statistics, including this one, necessarily undercounts real crime. That gap is exactly why homicide — the offense with the smallest dark figure — anchors the calculation instead of a more commonly reported but less reliable category like theft.
Scores on this page reflect FBI-reported data for 2025. See the full methodology →