Crime in Bluefield, West Virginia
Major crime in Bluefield is 34% below the U.S. rate per resident: 30% higher for persons crimes and 48% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 6.4% 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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Drugs and alcohol stands out most, at 2.2 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Bluefield 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 Bluefield
The middle half of Bluefield residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 47 and 78; the typical (median) resident's is 52. The citywide figure (66) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5041.0%
- 50–10054.0%
- 100–2005.0%
- 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 weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 6.4% in a year; across West Virginia it fell 6.9%
Change in expected crimes, with West Virginia as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.
Bluefield against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
1,015 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Bluefield; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Bluefield 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, Bluefield (4 mi), is 2.6 times Bluefield's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Bluefield
What are the most common crimes in Bluefield?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are aggravated assault (about 28 a year), other larceny (about 28 a year) and burglary (about 13 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 2.2 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. Bluefield's figures add up its 9 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Bluefield has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 0.0% 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: 8,112. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Bluefield, West Virginia." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/wv/bluefield
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