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Richmond, VA crime analytics

Source & Methodology

Analytics built by:   Location, Inc.

Raw data sources:   18,000 local law enforcement agencies in the U.S.

Date(s) & Update Frequency:   Reflects 2021 calendar year; released from FBI in Oct. 2022 (latest available). Updated annually. Where is 2022 data?

Methodology:   Our nationwide meta-analysis overcomes the issues inherent in any crime database, including non-reporting and reporting errors. This is possible by associating the 9.4 million reported crimes in the U.S, including over 2 million geocoded point locations…. Read more about Scout's Crime Data

With a crime rate of 34 per one thousand residents, Richmond has one of the highest crime rates in America compared to all communities of all sizes - from the smallest towns to the very largest cities. One's chance of becoming a victim of either violent or property crime here is one in 29. Within Virginia, more than 96% of the communities have a lower crime rate than Richmond.

Importantly, when you compare Richmond to other communities of similar population, then Richmond crime rate (violent and property crimes combined) is quite a bit higher than average. Regardless of how Richmond does relative to all communities in America of all sizes, when NeighborhoodScout compared it to communities of similar population size, its crime rate per thousand residents stands out as higher than most.

Now let us turn to take a look at how Richmond does for violent crimes specifically, and then how it does for property crimes. This is important because the overall crime rate can be further illuminated by understanding if violent crime or property crimes (or both) are the major contributors to the general rate of crime in Richmond.

From our analysis, we discovered that violent crime in Richmond occurs at a rate higher than in most communities of all population sizes in America. The chance that a person will become a victim of a violent crime in Richmond; such as armed robbery, aggravated assault, rape or murder; is 1 in 246. This equates to a rate of 4 per one thousand inhabitants.

Significantly, based on the number of murders reported by the FBI and the number of residents living in the city, NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that Richmond experiences one of the higher murder rates in the nation when compared with cities and towns for all sizes of population, from the largest to the smallest.

In addition, NeighborhoodScout found that a lot of the crime that takes place in Richmond is property crime. Property crimes that are tracked for this analysis are burglary, larceny over fifty dollars, motor vehicle theft, and arson. In Richmond, your chance of becoming a victim of a property crime is one in 33, which is a rate of 30 per one thousand population.

Richmond Crime Data

total Crime Index

8

(100 is safest)


Safer than 8% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Richmond Annual Crimes

  Violent Property Total

Number of Crimes

921

6,782

7,703

Crime Rate
(per 1,000 residents)

4.06

29.93

33.99

Violent Crime

Violent Crime Comparison (per 1,000 residents)

20 15 10 5 0
4.06
2.27
National Median: 4
    Richmond
    Virginia

Chances of Becoming a Victim of a Violent Crime

1 in 246

in Richmond

1 in 440

in Virginia

Richmond Violent Crimes

Population: 226,604
Murder Rape Robbery Assault
Report Total 90 30 267 534
Rate per 1,000 0.40 0.13 1.18 2.36

United States Violent Crimes

Population: 331,888,310
Murder Rape Robbery Assault
Report Total 22,941 144,285 202,155 943,774
Rate per 1,000 0.07 0.43 0.61 2.84

Property Crime

Property Crime Comparison (per 1,000 residents)

100 75 50 25 0
29.93
14.78
National Median: 19
    Richmond
    Virginia

Chances of Becoming a Victim of a Property Crime

1 in 33

in Richmond

1 in 68

in Virginia

Property Crimes

Population: 226,604
burglary theft motor vehicle theft
Report Total 711 5,481 590
Rate per 1,000 3.14 24.19 2.60

United States Property Crimes

Population: 331,888,310
burglary theft motor vehicle theft
Report Total 899,656 4,626,970 890,179
Rate per 1,000 2.71 13.94 2.68

Richmond Crimes Per Square Mile

200 150 100 50 0
123
17
National Median: 26.8
    Richmond
    Virginia