Fredericksburg, VA is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 72% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Fredericksburg, VA shows violent crime at 603.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,070.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 72% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
F safety grade
603.9/100K violent
3070.5/100K property
+72% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Fredericksburg, VA
Position in the state cohort
Fredericksburg reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Virginia cities
At 603.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Fredericksburg ranks 6 of 125 — above 119 of the 124 other Virginia cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +220.0% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 385.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 603.9 in 2024 (+56.8%). The highest observed value was 603.9 in 2024 and the lowest 385.2 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
Fredericksburg's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Virginia cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Fredericksburg's 603.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Ashland (594.7), Roanoke (620.4), Pulaski (567.0), Farmville (548.3). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 16.4% of the 1,083 Part I offenses reported in Fredericksburg for 2024, against a median of 10.4% across comparable Virginia cities — a gap of 6.1 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 Fredericksburg'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.
Fredericksburg's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 10.5 Census sq mi, Fredericksburg logged 86.6 property and 17 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Fredericksburg's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (77% of 1,083 offenses; mix index 6,094).
Violent offenses are 16% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (10.5 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
+24.1%
486.8 → 603.9/100K
Property Crime Rate
-11.1%
3455.6 → 3070.5/100K
Property offenses lead Fredericksburg's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs VA
vs US avg
Property Crime
905
3070.5
1590.1
1711
Larceny-Theft
832
2822.8
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
38
128.9
-
-
Burglary
35
118.7
-
-
Arson
2
6.8
-
-
Violent Crime
178
603.9
222.8
352
Aggravated Assault
138
468.2
-
-
Rape
20
67.9
-
-
Robbery
19
64.5
-
-
Murder
1
3.4
-
-
Fredericksburg Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Fredericksburg 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
Fredericksburg Police Department
Reporting agency for Fredericksburg NIBRS-participating
Fredericksburg Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Fredericksburg's 1,083 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 Fredericksburg in population. Their populations run from 22,297 to 33,538, against 29,474 here. Or use our
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Fredericksburg at 603.9/100K violent and 3,070.5/100K property - matched below outside Virginia (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Fredericksburg reported 178 violent crimes and 905 property crimes, for a total of 1,083 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Fredericksburg?
From 2023 to 2024, Fredericksburg's violent crime rate increased by 24.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 11.1%.
What is the most common crime in Fredericksburg?
The most common crime type in Fredericksburg is larceny-theft, accounting for 76.8% of all reported crimes (832 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Fredericksburg 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 Fredericksburg, VA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.