Herndon, VA has a B safety grade (60/100) with a violent crime rate of 239 per 100,000, 32% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Herndon (25,058 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then VA and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Herndon, VA is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a B PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 32% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Herndon, VA shows violent crime at 239.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,795.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 32% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Herndon's 239.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Winchester (238.3), Chase City (243.5), Waynesboro (245.0), Norton (231.3). 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 185.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 239.4 in 2024 (+28.8%). The highest observed value was 261.7 in 2022 and the lowest 185.9 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 239.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Herndon ranks 49 of 125 — above 76 of the 124 other Virginia cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +26.9% 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 Herndon'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.
Across 4.3 Census sq mi, Herndon logged 105 property and 14 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Herndon's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (78% of 510 offenses; mix index 6,268).
Violent offenses are only 12% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Herndon offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (4.3 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 450 | 1795.8 |
| Larceny-Theft | 400 | 1596.3 |
| Burglary | 25 | 99.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 25 | 99.8 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 60 | 239.4 |
| Aggravated Assault | 39 | 155.6 |
| Robbery | 15 | 59.9 |
| Rape | 6 | 23.9 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 24,739 | 185.9 | 990.3 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 24,694 | 202.5 | 1231.1 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 24,070 | 261.7 | 1707.5 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 23,962 | 217 | 1431.4 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 25,058 | 239.4 | 1795.8 |
Herndon Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Herndon's 510 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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Virginia cities closest to Herndon in population. Their populations run from 21,302 to 29,474, against 25,058 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Herndon sits at 239.4/100K violent (grade B); the Virginia cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Herndon at 239.4/100K violent and 1,795.8/100K property - matched below outside Virginia (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
239.4/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,795.8/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Herndon reported 60 violent crimes and 450 property crimes, for a total of 510 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Herndon's violent crime rate increased by 10.3%, and the property crime rate increased by 25.5%.
The most common crime type in Herndon is larceny-theft, accounting for 78.4% of all reported crimes (400 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Herndon 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.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Herndon's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Herndon, VA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
Bulk download: city crime dataset (CSV/JSON)
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