Crime in Falls Church, Virginia
Major crime in Falls Church is 16% below the U.S. rate per resident: 75% lower for persons crimes and about the same for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.9% 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 1.7 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Falls Church 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 Falls Church
The middle half of Falls Church residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 54 and 89; the typical (median) resident's is 68. The citywide figure (84) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5023.3%
- 50–10059.0%
- 100–2008.9%
- 200–4008.9%
- 400+0.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest in the daytime
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 7.9% 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.
Falls Church against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
889 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Falls Church; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Falls Church has a higher major-crime index than 6 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, West Falls Church (1 mi), is 17% below Falls Church's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Falls Church
What are the most common crimes in Falls Church?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 84 a year), other larceny (about 73 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 35 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 1.7 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. Falls Church's figures add up its 10 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Falls Church 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: 15,481. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Falls Church, Virginia." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/va/falls-church
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- West Falls Church1 mi70
- Idylwood2 mi51
- Seven Corners2 mi301
- Lake Barcroft2 mi36
- Pimmit Hills2 mi40
- Dunn Loring3 mi25
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