CrimeMetric

Crime in Dranesville, Virginia

Major crime in Dranesville is 78% below the U.S. rate per resident: 88% lower for persons crimes and 76% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 16.0% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
22
78% below the U.S. rate
74% below the Virginia rate
down 16.0% in a year
Persons crimes
12
88% below the U.S. rate
82% below the Virginia rate
down 11.3% in a year
Property crimes
24
76% below the U.S. rate
73% below the Virginia rate
down 16.4% in a year
Social disorder
27
73% below the U.S. rate
71% below the Virginia rate
down 16.0% 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

Every crime type in Dranesville is near or below the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Dranesville 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 Dranesville

The middle half of Dranesville residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 20 and 21; the typical (median) resident's is 21.

Map of Dranesville, 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.
  • 0–5095.4%
  • 50–1004.6%
  • 100–2000.0%
  • 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 weekdays, day and night

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

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm22
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am23
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm21
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am21
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 16.0% in a year; across Virginia it fell 8.5%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-16.0%VA -8.5%-13.3%VA -12.4%
Persons crimes-11.3%VA -5.2%-2.5%VA -1.9%
Property crimes-16.4%VA -9.0%-14.5%VA -14.1%
Social disorder-16.0%VA -5.3%-4.4%VA -5.7%

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.

Similar-size places

Dranesville against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents

2,101 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Dranesville; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:

Butler, PA12,838199
Beaufort, SC12,821114
Baker, LA12,85286
Hudson, FL12,86176
Medulla, FL12,85645
Newman, CA12,84233
Dranesville, VA12,84022

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

Nearby places

Dranesville 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, Sterling (2 mi), is 1.5 times Dranesville's rate.

Herndon2 mi83
Reston3 mi80
McNair3 mi65
Cascades4 mi62
Sterling2 mi34
Dranesville22

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

Questions about crime in Dranesville

What are the most common crimes in Dranesville?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 21 a year), theft from vehicle (about 12 a year) and shoplifting (about 7 a year). Compared with the U.S., simple assault stands out most: 58% below 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. Dranesville's figures add up its 8 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Dranesville's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
  • 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: 12,840. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Dranesville, Virginia." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/va/dranesville

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100