Huntington, WV carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 127% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Huntington, WV shows violent crime at 800.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,602.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 127% 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
800.3/100K violent
3602.3/100K property
+127% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Huntington, WV
Position in the state cohort
Huntington reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable West Virginia cities
At 800.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Huntington ranks 3 of 49 — above 46 of the 48 other West Virginia cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +366.5% against the cohort median of 171.6. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Comparable rate records
Huntington's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the West Virginia cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Huntington's 800.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Montgomery (827.1), Moorefield (766.1), Romney (628.9), Wheeling (982.6). 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 18.2% of the 1,975 Part I offenses reported in Huntington for 2024, against a median of 9.4% across comparable West Virginia cities — a gap of 8.8 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.
Share of the state cohort
Huntington carries a large share of the reporting cohort’s total offenses
The 1,975 Part I offenses reported here are 16.6% of the 11,915 reported across all 49 comparable West Virginia cities in 2024. A city this large moves the statewide municipal total on its own, so state-level changes should be read against its population of 44,860 rather than as a uniform shift.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 73.9% of reported property offenses in Huntington, against a cohort median of 86.2%. The remainder is burglary (272) and motor vehicle theft (150). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 823.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 800.3 in 2024 (-2.8%). The highest observed value was 823.6 in 2020 and the lowest 660.3 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Huntington'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.
Huntington's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 16.2 Census sq mi, Huntington logged 99.6 property and 22.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Huntington's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (60% of 1,975 offenses; mix index 4,087).
Violent offenses are 18% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (16.2 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
+7.5%
3350.2 → 3602.3/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+2.3%
782.3 → 800.3/100K
Property offenses lead Huntington's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs WV
Property Crime
1,616
3602.3
1089.3
Larceny-Theft
1,194
2661.6
-
Burglary
272
606.3
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
150
334.4
-
Arson
7
15.6
-
Violent Crime
359
800.3
241.6
Aggravated Assault
260
579.6
-
Robbery
47
104.8
-
Rape
46
102.5
-
Murder
6
13.4
-
Huntington Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Huntington 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
Huntington Police Department
Reporting agency for Huntington NIBRS-participating
Huntington Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Huntington's 1,975 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 West Virginia
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the West Virginia cities closest to Huntington in population. Their populations run from 15,316 to 46,252, against 44,860 here. Or use our
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Huntington at 800.3/100K violent and 3,602.3/100K property - matched below outside West Virginia (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Huntington reported 359 violent crimes and 1,616 property crimes, for a total of 1,975 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Huntington?
From 2023 to 2024, Huntington's violent crime rate increased by 2.3%, and the property crime rate increased by 7.5%.
What is the most common crime in Huntington?
The most common crime type in Huntington is larceny-theft, accounting for 60.5% of all reported crimes (1,194 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Huntington 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 Huntington, WV rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.