Crime in Suffolk, Virginia
Major crime in Suffolk is 6% below the U.S. rate per resident: 14% higher for persons crimes and 10% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are about flat 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 and simple assault stand out most, at about 1.8 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Suffolk 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 Suffolk
The middle half of Suffolk residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 37 and 99; the typical (median) resident's is 64. The citywide figure (94) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5042.2%
- 50–10033.4%
- 100–20013.9%
- 200–4008.0%
- 400+2.6%
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 rose 0.9% 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.
Suffolk against U.S. places with 100,000 to 250,000 residents
166 of the 268 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Suffolk; the middle of the group is 109. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Suffolk 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, Portsmouth (12 mi), is 2.6 times Suffolk's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Suffolk
What are the most common crimes in Suffolk?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 682 a year), aggravated assault (about 304 a year) and shoplifting (about 278 a year). Compared with the U.S., weapons violations stands out most: 1.8 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. Suffolk's figures add up its 84 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Suffolk's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 28.1% 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: 106,924. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Suffolk, Virginia." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/va/suffolk
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Portsmouth12 mi250
- Carrollton12 mi27
- Smithfield14 mi56
- Chesapeake15 mi107
- Norfolk18 mi234
- Hampton21 mi158
- Newport News22 mi152
- Franklin22 mi177