Crime in Elkins, West Virginia
Major crime in Elkins is 39% below the U.S. rate per resident: 1.5 times for persons crimes and 59% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 6.3% 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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Aggravated assault stands out most, at 1.8 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Elkins 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 Elkins
The middle half of Elkins residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 36 and 85; the typical (median) resident's is 47. The citywide figure (61) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5064.7%
- 50–10021.7%
- 100–20013.6%
- 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 weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 6.3% 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.
Elkins against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
1,119 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Elkins; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Elkins has a higher major-crime index than 7 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Philippi (19 mi), is 40% below Elkins's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Elkins
What are the most common crimes in Elkins?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are aggravated assault (about 28 a year), shoplifting (about 14 a year) and other larceny (about 12 a year). Compared with the U.S., aggravated assault 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. Elkins's figures add up its 7 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Elkins 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: 6,519. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Elkins, West Virginia." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/wv/elkins
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Philippi19 mi37
- Buckhannon21 mi50
- Grafton30 mi54
- Bridgeport33 mi27
- Weston34 mi45
- Clarksburg36 mi122
- Kingwood38 mi32
- Pleasant Valley40 mi48