Alexandria, VA has a C safety grade (55/100) with a violent crime rate of 219 per 100,000, 38% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Alexandria, VA Crime Rate & Safety
At 155,153 residents, Alexandria is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against VA and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Alexandria, VA carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 38% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Alexandria, VA shows violent crime at 219.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,640 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 38% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
C safety grade
219.1/100K violent
2640/100K property
-38% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Alexandria, VA
Comparable rate records
Alexandria's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Virginia cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Alexandria's 219.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Christiansburg (224.2), Radford (212.7), Exmore (211.6), Blackstone (210.3). These are same-year agency submissions that pass the same completeness screen, not a claim that the cities have identical conditions. They make the cohort position above checkable against named records instead of a generic state average.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 185.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 219.1 in 2024 (+18.0%). The highest observed value was 258.6 in 2023 and the lowest 185.7 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
Alexandria sits mid-pack among comparable Virginia cities
At 219.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Alexandria ranks 53 of 125 — above 72 of the 124 other Virginia cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +16.1% against the cohort median of 188.7. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 7.7% of the 4,436 Part I offenses reported in Alexandria for 2024, against a median of 10.7% across comparable Virginia cities — a gap of 3.0 points. Offense mix is shaped by which agencies report and how incidents are classified as well as by the underlying offenses, so it describes the reported record rather than a settled difference in conditions.
Property counts dominate Alexandria's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; cities that fail the completeness test stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Alexandria's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 14.9 Census sq mi, Alexandria logged 274.3 property and 22.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Alexandria's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (81% of 4,436 offenses; mix index 6,593).
Violent offenses are only 8% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (14.9 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-15.3%
258.6 → 219.1/100K
Property Crime Rate
+7.8%
2448.4 → 2640/100K
Property offenses lead Alexandria's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs VA
vs US avg
Property Crime
4,096
2640
1590.1
1711
Larceny-Theft
3,571
2301.6
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
376
242.3
-
-
Burglary
149
96
-
-
Arson
4
2.6
-
-
Violent Crime
340
219.1
222.8
352
Aggravated Assault
213
137.3
-
-
Robbery
113
72.8
-
-
Rape
12
7.7
-
-
Murder
2
1.3
-
-
Alexandria Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Alexandria property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Alexandria Police Department
Reporting agency for Alexandria NIBRS-participating
Alexandria Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Alexandria's 4,436 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
This agency reports via NIBRS, the incident-based system that captures more detail per offense (multiple crimes per incident, victim/offender data) than the older summary counts.
Similar-Size Cities in Virginia
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Virginia cities closest to Alexandria in population. Their populations run from 80,339 to 231,805, against 155,153 here. Or use our
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Alexandria at 219.1/100K violent and 2,640/100K property - matched below outside Virginia (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Alexandria reported 340 violent crimes and 4,096 property crimes, for a total of 4,436 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Alexandria?
From 2023 to 2024, Alexandria's violent crime rate decreased by 15.3%, and the property crime rate increased by 7.8%.
What is the most common crime in Alexandria?
The most common crime type in Alexandria is larceny-theft, accounting for 80.5% of all reported crimes (3,571 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Alexandria's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Alexandria, VA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.