Crime in Wheeling, West Virginia
Major crime in Wheeling is 1.5 times the U.S. rate per resident: 2.9 times for persons crimes and 23% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 3.7% 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 3.5 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Wheeling 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 Wheeling
The middle half of Wheeling residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 69 and 166; the typical (median) resident's is 105. The citywide figure (153) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–507.3%
- 50–10036.5%
- 100–20037.9%
- 200–40012.8%
- 400+5.5%
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 rose 3.7% 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.
Wheeling against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
127 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Wheeling; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Wheeling has a higher major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Martins Ferry (3 mi), is 72% below Wheeling's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Wheeling
What are the most common crimes in Wheeling?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 220 a year), aggravated assault (about 210 a year) and burglary (about 111 a year). Compared with the U.S., aggravated assault stands out most: 3.5 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. Wheeling's figures add up its 38 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Wheeling has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 12.2% 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: 26,285. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Wheeling, West Virginia." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/wv/wheeling
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