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
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 →