Crime in Princeton, West Virginia
Major crime in Princeton is 62% below the U.S. rate per resident: 26% lower for persons crimes and 70% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 5.2% 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 Princeton is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Princeton 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 Princeton
The middle half of Princeton residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 22 and 44; the typical (median) resident's is 36.
- 0–5090.3%
- 50–1009.7%
- 100–2000.0%
- 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 weekdays, day and night
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 5.2% 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.
Princeton against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
1,677 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Princeton; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Princeton 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, Bluefield (11 mi), is 1.7 times Princeton's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Princeton
What are the most common crimes in Princeton?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 13 a year), aggravated assault (about 12 a year) and other larceny (about 6 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. Princeton's figures add up its 6 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Princeton 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: 6,190. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Princeton, West Virginia." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/wv/princeton
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