Crime in Newington Forest, Virginia
Major crime in Newington Forest is 80% below the U.S. rate per resident: 86% lower for persons crimes and 79% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 16.7% 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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Every crime type in Newington Forest is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Newington Forest 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 Newington Forest
The middle half of Newington Forest residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 18 and 22; the typical (median) resident's is 20.
- 0–50100.0%
- 50–1000.0%
- 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.
Highest on weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 16.7% 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.
Newington Forest against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
2,127 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Newington Forest; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Newington Forest 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, Crosspointe (2 mi), is 2.1 times Newington Forest's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Newington Forest
What are the most common crimes in Newington Forest?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 18 a year), theft from vehicle (about 12 a year) and shoplifting (about 4 a year). Compared with the U.S., simple assault stands out most: 50% 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. Newington Forest's figures add up its 6 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Newington Forest'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: 12,959. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Newington Forest, Virginia." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/va/newington-forest
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Crosspointe2 mi42
- Newington2 mi76
- Laurel Hill2 mi30
- Lorton3 mi59
- West Springfield3 mi38
- Burke3 mi31
- Springfield4 mi155
- Franconia5 mi51