Front Royal, VA is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 5% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Front Royal, VA shows violent crime at 335 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,533.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 5% 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
335/100K violent
1533.1/100K property
-5% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Front Royal, VA
Comparable rate records
Front Royal's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Virginia cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Front Royal's 335.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Richmond (336.9), Chesapeake (339.4), Victoria (343.1), Kilmarnock (346.3). 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.
Position in the state cohort
Front Royal reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Virginia cities
At 335.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Front Royal ranks 32 of 125 — above 93 of the 124 other Virginia cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +77.5% 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 266.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 335.0 in 2024 (+25.7%). The highest observed value was 335.0 in 2024 and the lowest 180.7 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 17.9% of the 290 Part I offenses reported in Front Royal for 2024, against a median of 10.4% across comparable Virginia cities — a gap of 7.6 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 Front Royal'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.
Front Royal's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 10.3 Census sq mi, Front Royal logged 23.2 property and 5.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Front Royal's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (66% of 290 offenses; mix index 4,680).
Violent offenses are 18% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (10.3 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
+47.2%
227.6 → 335/100K
Property Crime Rate
-11.7%
1736.1 → 1533.1/100K
Property offenses lead Front Royal's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
238
1533.1
1711
Larceny-Theft
192
1236.8
-
Burglary
27
173.9
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
19
122.4
-
Arson
4
25.8
-
Violent Crime
52
335
352
Rape
35
225.5
-
Aggravated Assault
12
77.3
-
Robbery
4
25.8
-
Murder
1
6.4
-
Front Royal Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Front Royal property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Front Royal Police Department
Reporting agency for Front Royal NIBRS-participating
Front Royal Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Front Royal's 290 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 Front Royal in population. Their populations run from 12,788 to 17,399, against 15,524 here. Or use our
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Front Royal at 335/100K violent and 1,533.1/100K property - matched below outside Virginia (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Front Royal reported 52 violent crimes and 238 property crimes, for a total of 290 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Front Royal?
From 2023 to 2024, Front Royal's violent crime rate increased by 47.2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 11.7%.
What is the most common crime in Front Royal?
The most common crime type in Front Royal is larceny-theft, accounting for 66.2% of all reported crimes (192 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Front Royal 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 Front Royal, VA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.