Crime in Oak Hill, West Virginia
Major crime in Oak Hill is 60% below the U.S. rate per resident: 57% lower for persons crimes and 60% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.0% 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 1.6 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Oak Hill 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 Oak Hill
The middle half of Oak Hill residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 26 and 47; the typical (median) resident's is 40.
- 0–5091.2%
- 50–1000.0%
- 100–2008.8%
- 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 8.0% 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.
Oak Hill against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
1,619 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Oak Hill; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Oak Hill has a higher major-crime index than 1 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Beckley (14 mi), is 8.6 times Oak Hill's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Oak Hill
What are the most common crimes in Oak Hill?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 23 a year), aggravated assault (about 8 a year) and shoplifting (about 7 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 1.6 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. Oak Hill's figures add up its 7 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Oak Hill 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: 7,641. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Oak Hill, West Virginia." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/wv/oak-hill
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Beckley14 mi346
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