Safest Neighborhoods in Norfolk (2024)
Norfolk's open crime data has no reliable neighborhood population figure, so these Norfolk police zones are ranked by severity-weighted reported incident volume, not a per-person rate. The Norfolk police zones at the top of this list have the fewest reported incidents relative to other Norfolk Norfolk police zones.
Volume, not a safety rate. Norfolk police zone resident population is not reliably available for a per-100k rate, so no safety grade is published for any zone (see /crime-rate/methodology §6.6). The geographic unit is the Norfolk police zone (a policing/analysis boundary, not a resident-population neighborhood). relativeIndex ranks each zone by its VIOLENCE-WEIGHTED reported-incident volume (violent incidents weighted 3x property) against the other Norfolk zones — it is NOT population-adjusted and must not be read as a safety rate. Offenses are grouped into three coarse buckets (violent / property / other) via a keyword classifier.
Ranked lowest reported volume first
Not the same Norfolk police zones as the most dangerous neighborhoods in norfolk list.
- 1Police Zone 325100/100
- 2Police Zone 332100/100
- 3Police Zone 334100/100
- 4Police Zone 33398/100
- 5Police Zone 24293/100
- 6Police Zone 13286/100
- 7Police Zone 22376/100
- 8Police Zone 12675/100
- 9Police Zone 23475/100
- 10Police Zone 24574/100
- 11Police Zone 14273/100
- 12Police Zone 13366/100
- 13Police Zone 24666/100
- 14Police Zone 12365/100
- 15Police Zone 14364/100
- 16Police Zone 23364/100
- 17Police Zone 23263/100
- 18Police Zone 23663/100
- 19Police Zone 24463/100
- 20Police Zone 22661/100
- 21Police Zone 13560/100
- 22Police Zone 12558/100
- 23Police Zone 24357/100
- 24Police Zone 12755/100
- 25Police Zone 12253/100
- 26Police Zone 22453/100
- 27Police Zone 22245/100
- 28Police Zone 22543/100
- 29Police Zone 13442/100
- 30Police Zone 23539/100
- 31Police Zone 13738/100
- 32Police Zone 13627/100
- 33Police Zone 1240/100
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Safest neighborhoods in Norfolk — FAQ
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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 2024. See the full methodology →