Hopewell, VA is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 8% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Hopewell, VA shows violent crime at 380.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,040 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 8% above 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
380.9/100K violent
2040/100K property
+8% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Hopewell, VA
Comparable rate records
Hopewell's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Virginia cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Hopewell's 380.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Martinsville (386.6), Suffolk (371.0), Danville (365.0), Richlands (397.1). 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
Hopewell reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Virginia cities
At 380.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Hopewell ranks 23 of 125 — above 102 of the 124 other Virginia cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +101.8% 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-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 69.3% of reported property offenses in Hopewell, against a cohort median of 86.7%. The remainder is burglary (32) and motor vehicle theft (111). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 15.7% of the 553 Part I offenses reported in Hopewell for 2024, against a median of 10.4% across comparable Virginia cities — a gap of 5.4 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 364.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 380.9 in 2024 (+4.5%). The highest observed value was 538.6 in 2022 and the lowest 336.0 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Hopewell'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.
Hopewell's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 10.4 Census sq mi, Hopewell logged 45 property and 8.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Hopewell's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (58% of 553 offenses; mix index 4,016).
Violent offenses are 16% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (10.4 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
+14.2%
1785.9 → 2040/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+2.9%
370.2 → 380.9/100K
Property offenses lead Hopewell's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs VA
Property Crime
466
2040
1590.1
Larceny-Theft
323
1414
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
111
485.9
-
Burglary
32
140.1
-
Arson
4
17.5
-
Violent Crime
87
380.9
222.8
Aggravated Assault
71
310.8
-
Murder
6
26.3
-
Rape
5
21.9
-
Robbery
5
21.9
-
Hopewell Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Hopewell 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
Hopewell Police Department
Reporting agency for Hopewell NIBRS-participating
Hopewell Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Hopewell's 553 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 Hopewell in population. Their populations run from 18,605 to 27,700, against 22,843 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Hopewell reported 87 violent crimes and 466 property crimes, for a total of 553 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Hopewell?
From 2023 to 2024, Hopewell's violent crime rate increased by 2.9%, and the property crime rate increased by 14.2%.
What is the most common crime in Hopewell?
The most common crime type in Hopewell is larceny-theft, accounting for 58.4% of all reported crimes (323 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Hopewell 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 Hopewell, VA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.