Crime in South Boston, Virginia
Major crime in South Boston is about the U.S. rate per resident: 20% higher for persons crimes and 6% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.3% 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 3.6 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in South Boston 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 South Boston
The middle half of South Boston residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 81 and 109; the typical (median) resident's is 106.
- 0–5020.0%
- 50–10014.7%
- 100–20065.3%
- 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 Friday and Saturday nights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 7.3% 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.
South Boston against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
569 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than South Boston; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
South Boston has a higher major-crime index than 2 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Roxboro (23 mi), is 1.6 times South Boston's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in South Boston
What are the most common crimes in South Boston?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 47 a year), shoplifting (about 32 a year) and aggravated assault (about 25 a year). Compared with the U.S., weapons violations stands out most: 3.6 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. South Boston's figures add up its 5 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- South Boston has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 48.7% 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: 8,225. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in South Boston, Virginia." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/va/south-boston
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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