Crime in West Falls Church, Virginia
Major crime in West Falls Church is 30% below the U.S. rate per resident: 58% lower for persons crimes and 23% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 17.5% 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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Shoplifting stands out most, at 36% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in West Falls Church 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 West Falls Church
The middle half of West Falls Church residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 37 and 80; the typical (median) resident's is 58. The citywide figure (70) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5047.0%
- 50–10029.2%
- 100–20021.0%
- 200–4002.9%
- 400+0.0%
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 fell 17.5% 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.
West Falls Church against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
528 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than West Falls Church; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
West Falls Church has a higher major-crime index than 4 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Falls Church (1 mi), is 20% above West Falls Church's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in West Falls Church
What are the most common crimes in West Falls Church?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 139 a year), other larceny (about 101 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 60 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 36% above 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. West Falls Church's figures add up its 21 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- West Falls Church's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 29.0% 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: 32,174. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in West Falls Church, Virginia." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/va/west-falls-church
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