Hampton, VA has a C safety grade (50/100) with a violent crime rate of 248 per 100,000, 30% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Hampton, VA Crime Rate & Safety
At 138,100 residents, Hampton 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.
Hampton, VA carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 30% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Hampton, VA shows violent crime at 247.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,882 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 30% 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
247.6/100K violent
2882/100K property
-30% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Hampton, VA
Comparable rate records
Hampton's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Virginia cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Hampton's 247.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Colonial Beach (247.9), Waynesboro (245.0), Chase City (243.5), Damascus (254.5). 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
Hampton sits mid-pack among comparable Virginia cities
At 247.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Hampton ranks 46 of 125 — above 79 of the 124 other Virginia cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +31.2% 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 lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 267.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 247.6 in 2024 (-7.2%). The highest observed value was 291.6 in 2021 and the lowest 247.6 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Hampton'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.
Hampton's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 51.5 Census sq mi, Hampton logged 77.3 property and 6.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Hampton's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (78% of 4,322 offenses; mix index 6,175).
Violent offenses are only 8% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (51.5 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
-13.2%
285.1 → 247.6/100K
Property Crime Rate
-4.6%
3020.9 → 2882/100K
Property offenses lead Hampton's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs VA
vs US avg
Property Crime
3,980
2882
1590.1
1711
Larceny-Theft
3,360
2433
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
330
239
-
-
Burglary
290
210
-
-
Arson
14
10.1
-
-
Violent Crime
342
247.6
222.8
352
Aggravated Assault
209
151.3
-
-
Robbery
78
56.5
-
-
Rape
40
29
-
-
Murder
15
10.9
-
-
Hampton Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Hampton 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
Hampton Police Department
Reporting agency for Hampton NIBRS-participating
Hampton Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Hampton's 4,322 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 Hampton in population. Their populations run from 49,626 to 183,563, against 138,100 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Hampton reported 342 violent crimes and 3,980 property crimes, for a total of 4,322 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Hampton?
From 2023 to 2024, Hampton's violent crime rate decreased by 13.2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 4.6%.
What is the most common crime in Hampton?
The most common crime type in Hampton is larceny-theft, accounting for 77.7% of all reported crimes (3,360 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Hampton'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 Hampton, VA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.