Crime in Newport News, Virginia
Major crime in Newport News is 1.5 times the U.S. rate per resident: 1.8 times for persons crimes and 45% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 16.9% 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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Weapons violations stand out most, at 5.9 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Newport News 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 Newport News
The middle half of Newport News residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 61 and 175; the typical (median) resident's is 104. The citywide figure (152) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5019.3%
- 50–10028.0%
- 100–20035.6%
- 200–40013.6%
- 400+3.5%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest at night
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 16.9% 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.
Newport News against U.S. places with 100,000 to 250,000 residents
71 of the 268 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Newport News; the middle of the group is 109. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Newport News 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, Bethel Manor (4 mi), is 85% below Newport News's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Newport News
What are the most common crimes in Newport News?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 1,388 a year), other larceny (about 881 a year) and aggravated assault (about 849 a year). Compared with the U.S., weapons violations stands out most: 5.9 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. Newport News's figures add up its 133 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Newport News has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 86.9% 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: 182,942. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Newport News, Virginia." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/va/newport-news
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Bethel Manor4 mi22
- Poquoson7 mi50
- Hampton8 mi158
- Carrollton10 mi27
- Smithfield10 mi56
- Gloucester Point13 mi36
- Williamsburg18 mi104
- Norfolk19 mi234