Christiansburg, VA is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 36% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Christiansburg, VA shows violent crime at 224.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,596.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 36% 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
224.2/100K violent
2596.8/100K property
-36% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Christiansburg, VA
Comparable rate records
Christiansburg's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Virginia cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Christiansburg's 224.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Alexandria (219.1), Norton (231.3), Radford (212.7), Exmore (211.6). 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 172.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 224.2 in 2024 (+30.2%). The highest observed value was 257.3 in 2021 and the lowest 171.1 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
Christiansburg sits mid-pack among comparable Virginia cities
At 224.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Christiansburg ranks 52 of 125 — above 73 of the 124 other Virginia cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +18.8% 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.
Property counts dominate Christiansburg'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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Christiansburg's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 14.7 Census sq mi, Christiansburg logged 39.3 property and 3.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Christiansburg's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (84% of 629 offenses; mix index 7,148).
Violent offenses are only 8% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (14.7 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
+31%
171.1 → 224.2/100K
Property Crime Rate
+15.6%
2247.1 → 2596.8/100K
Property offenses lead Christiansburg's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs VA
vs US avg
Property Crime
579
2596.8
1590.1
1711
Larceny-Theft
529
2372.5
-
-
Burglary
35
157
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
15
67.3
-
-
Arson
2
9
-
-
Violent Crime
50
224.2
222.8
352
Aggravated Assault
37
165.9
-
-
Rape
12
53.8
-
-
Robbery
1
4.5
-
-
Murder
0
0
-
-
Christiansburg Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Christiansburg 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
Christiansburg Police Department
Reporting agency for Christiansburg NIBRS-participating
Christiansburg Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Christiansburg's 629 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 Christiansburg in population. Their populations run from 17,399 to 26,151, against 22,297 here. Or use our
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Christiansburg at 224.2/100K violent and 2,596.8/100K property - matched below outside Virginia (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Christiansburg reported 50 violent crimes and 579 property crimes, for a total of 629 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Christiansburg?
From 2023 to 2024, Christiansburg's violent crime rate increased by 31%, and the property crime rate increased by 15.6%.
What is the most common crime in Christiansburg?
The most common crime type in Christiansburg is larceny-theft, accounting for 84.1% of all reported crimes (529 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Christiansburg figures are FBI UCR CIUS Table 8 (vintage 2024), population-adjusted per 100,000.
Denominators are the reporting-year population on the municipal row. Incomplete years are dropped from rankings. Confirm at FBI Crime Data Explorer and Census.gov QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (mid-size municipal): figures are informational, not advice. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is the source. Consult a professional before decisions.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Christiansburg, VA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.