Crime in Colonial Heights, Virginia
Major crime in Colonial Heights is 2.1 times the U.S. rate per resident: 18% higher for persons crimes and 2.3 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.2% from a year earlier.
Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this
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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Shoplifting stands out most, at 6.5 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Colonial Heights for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Property crimes
Social disorder
How crime varies across Colonial Heights
The middle half of Colonial Heights residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 33 and 185; the typical (median) resident's is 81. The citywide figure (210) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5026.1%
- 50–10032.5%
- 100–20020.0%
- 200–40018.6%
- 400+2.8%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekend daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 7.2% in a year; across Virginia it fell 8.5%
Change in expected crimes, with Virginia as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.
Colonial Heights against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
102 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Colonial Heights; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Colonial Heights has a higher major-crime index than 7 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Ettrick (2 mi), is 69% below Colonial Heights's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Colonial Heights
What are the most common crimes in Colonial Heights?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 393 a year), other larceny (about 117 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 61 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 6.5 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. Colonial Heights's figures add up its 12 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Colonial Heights has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 32.3% 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: 18,976. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Colonial Heights, Virginia." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/va/colonial-heights
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Ettrick2 mi65
- Fort Lee4 mi24
- Petersburg4 mi247
- Hopewell5 mi98
- Chester6 mi112
- Bellwood10 mi155
- Meadowbrook12 mi92
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