CrimeMetric

Crime in Williamsburg, Kentucky

Major crime in Williamsburg is 64% below the U.S. rate per resident: 55% lower for persons crimes and 66% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.8% from a year earlier.

Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this

Major crime
36
64% below the U.S. rate
58% below the Kentucky rate
down 8.8% in a year
Persons crimes
45
55% below the U.S. rate
30% below the Kentucky rate
down 7.3% in a year
Property crimes
34
66% below the U.S. rate
62% below the Kentucky rate
down 9.2% in a year
Social disorder
86
14% below the U.S. rate
14% below the Kentucky rate
down 7.9% in a year

Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.

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Crime by type

Drugs and alcohol stands out most, at 2.1 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Williamsburg for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

How crime varies across Williamsburg

The middle half of Williamsburg residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 24 and 37; the typical (median) resident's is 29. The citywide figure (36) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Williamsburg, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the bar's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5094.4%
  • 50–1000.0%
  • 100–2005.6%
  • 200–4000.0%
  • 400+0.0%

Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.

When it happens

Highest on weeknights and on weekend daytimes

Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm32
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am40
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm39
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am37
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 8.8% in a year; across Kentucky it fell 5.9%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-8.8%KY -5.9%-13.5%KY -12.3%
Persons crimes-7.3%KY -9.7%0.0%KY -1.4%
Property crimes-9.2%KY -5.3%-17.4%KY -14.0%
Social disorder-7.9%KY -5.8%-9.9%KY -7.2%

Change in expected crimes, with Kentucky as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.

Similar-size places

Williamsburg against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents

1,740 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Williamsburg; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:

Summit, WI6,71638
Williamsburg, KY6,71636

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.

Nearby places

Williamsburg has a lower major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Corbin (14 mi), is 1.5 times Williamsburg's rate.

London26 mi94
Oneida, TN26 mi76
Somerset34 mi62
Corbin14 mi54
Williamsburg36

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.

Questions about crime in Williamsburg

What are the most common crimes in Williamsburg?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 13 a year), burglary (about 8 a year) and aggravated assault (about 7 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 2.1 times the U.S. rate per resident.

How we calculated this

Each police agency's crimes, as reported to the FBI, are spread across the census block groups it serves using population, jobs, points of interest and, where available, local incident records. Williamsburg's figures add up its 6 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Williamsburg has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
  • 0.0% of residents live in block groups whose estimate has high confidence (80% interval within about 5x).
  • Rates are per resident, so places where many people work or visit but few live, such as downtowns, airports and stadiums, can read high.
  • Disorderly conduct and trespassing are modeled, because the FBI records them only through arrests.
  • Residents: 6,716. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Williamsburg, Kentucky." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ky/williamsburg

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100