Crime in Virginia Beach, Virginia
Major crime in Virginia Beach is 15% below the U.S. rate per resident: 65% lower for persons crimes and about the same for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 6.6% 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 2.0 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Virginia Beach 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 Virginia Beach
The middle half of Virginia Beach residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 32 and 91; the typical (median) resident's is 52. The citywide figure (85) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5048.1%
- 50–10032.2%
- 100–20011.9%
- 200–4005.8%
- 400+2.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Lowest on weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 6.6% 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.
Virginia Beach against U.S. places with 250,000 to 500,000 residents
45 of the 53 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Virginia Beach; the middle of the group is 142. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Virginia Beach has a higher major-crime index than 3 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Norfolk (10 mi), is 2.8 times Virginia Beach's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Virginia Beach
What are the most common crimes in Virginia Beach?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 2,072 a year), other larceny (about 2,069 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 1,440 a year). Compared with the U.S., weapons violations stands out most: 2.0 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. Virginia Beach's figures add up its 323 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Virginia Beach has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 16.6% 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: 454,059. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Virginia Beach, Virginia." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/va/virginia-beach
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Norfolk10 mi234
- Chesapeake11 mi107
- Portsmouth14 mi250
- Hampton21 mi158
- Suffolk25 mi94
- Carrollton26 mi27
- Bethel Manor26 mi22
- Poquoson26 mi50