Fairfax City, VA is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 63% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Fairfax City, VA shows violent crime at 128.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,303.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 63% 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
128.5/100K violent
3303.2/100K property
-63% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Fairfax City, VA
Comparable rate records
Fairfax City's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Virginia cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Fairfax City's 128.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Lebanon (129.2), Lexington (130.6), Abingdon (132.4), Chilhowie (124.4). 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 86.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 128.5 in 2024 (+47.9%). The highest observed value was 131.0 in 2023 and the lowest 86.9 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 3.7% of the 881 Part I offenses reported in Fairfax City for 2024, against a median of 10.7% across comparable Virginia cities — a gap of 7.0 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.
Position in the state cohort
Fairfax City sits mid-pack among comparable Virginia cities
At 128.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Fairfax City ranks 79 of 125 — above 46 of the 124 other Virginia cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -32.3% against the cohort median of 189.9. 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 Fairfax City'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.
Fairfax City's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 6.2 Census sq mi, Fairfax City logged 135.9 property and 5.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Fairfax City's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (90% of 881 offenses; mix index 8,209).
Violent offenses are only 4% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (6.2 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
+18.9%
2778.5 → 3303.2/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-1.9%
131 → 128.5/100K
Property offenses lead Fairfax City's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs VA
vs US avg
Property Crime
848
3303.2
1590.1
1711
Larceny-Theft
797
3104.5
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
35
136.3
-
-
Burglary
16
62.3
-
-
Arson
0
0
-
-
Violent Crime
33
128.5
222.8
352
Aggravated Assault
18
70.1
-
-
Robbery
12
46.7
-
-
Rape
3
11.7
-
-
Murder
0
0
-
-
Fairfax City Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Fairfax City 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
Fairfax City Police Department
Reporting agency for Fairfax City NIBRS-participating
Fairfax City Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Fairfax City's 881 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 Fairfax City in population. Their populations run from 21,302 to 29,474, against 25,672 here. Or use our
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Fairfax City at 128.5/100K violent and 3,303.2/100K property - matched below outside Virginia (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Fairfax City reported 33 violent crimes and 848 property crimes, for a total of 881 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Fairfax City?
From 2023 to 2024, Fairfax City's violent crime rate decreased by 1.9%, and the property crime rate increased by 18.9%.
What is the most common crime in Fairfax City?
The most common crime type in Fairfax City is larceny-theft, accounting for 90.5% of all reported crimes (797 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Fairfax City 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 Fairfax City, VA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.