Crime in Brookhaven, West Virginia
Major crime in Brookhaven is 73% below the U.S. rate per resident: 63% lower for persons crimes and 75% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 16.9% 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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Every crime type in Brookhaven is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Brookhaven for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Social disorder
How crime varies across Brookhaven
The middle half of Brookhaven residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 13 and 41; the typical (median) resident's is 25.
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- 50–1000.0%
- 100–2000.0%
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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 16.9% 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.
Brookhaven against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
1,964 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Brookhaven; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Brookhaven has a lower major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Morgantown (3 mi), is 3.1 times Brookhaven's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Brookhaven
What are the most common crimes in Brookhaven?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 9 a year), shoplifting (about 7 a year) and aggravated assault (about 5 a year). Compared with the U.S., rape / sexual assault stands out most: 9% below 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. Brookhaven's figures add up its 5 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Brookhaven 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: 5,851. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Brookhaven, West Virginia." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/wv/brookhaven
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