Leesburg, VA is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a B PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 27% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Leesburg, VA shows violent crime at 255.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,573.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 27% 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.
B safety grade
255.9/100K violent
1573.8/100K property
-27% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Leesburg, VA
Comparable rate records
Leesburg's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Virginia cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Leesburg's 255.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Damascus (254.5), Colonial Beach (247.9), Grottoes (264.1), Hampton (247.6). 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.
Position in the state cohort
Leesburg sits mid-pack among comparable Virginia cities
At 255.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Leesburg ranks 43 of 125 — above 82 of the 124 other Virginia cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +35.6% 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 223.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 255.9 in 2024 (+14.6%). The highest observed value was 309.7 in 2022 and the lowest 197.2 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 14.0% of the 908 Part I offenses reported in Leesburg for 2024, against a median of 10.4% across comparable Virginia cities — a gap of 3.6 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 Leesburg'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.
Leesburg's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 12.6 Census sq mi, Leesburg logged 62.1 property and 10.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Leesburg's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (79% of 908 offenses; mix index 6,342).
Violent offenses are only 14% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (12.6 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
-5.5%
1666.2 → 1573.8/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+0.1%
255.7 → 255.9/100K
Property offenses lead Leesburg's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
781
1573.8
1711
Larceny-Theft
715
1440.8
-
Burglary
38
76.6
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
28
56.4
-
Arson
0
0
-
Violent Crime
127
255.9
352
Aggravated Assault
94
189.4
-
Robbery
17
34.3
-
Rape
16
32.2
-
Murder
0
0
-
Leesburg Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Leesburg 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
Leesburg Police Department
Reporting agency for Leesburg NIBRS-participating
Leesburg Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Leesburg's 908 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 Leesburg in population. Their populations run from 27,700 to 51,270, against 49,626 here. Or use our
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Leesburg at 255.9/100K violent and 1,573.8/100K property - matched below outside Virginia (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Leesburg reported 127 violent crimes and 781 property crimes, for a total of 908 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Leesburg?
From 2023 to 2024, Leesburg's violent crime rate increased by 0.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 5.5%.
What is the most common crime in Leesburg?
The most common crime type in Leesburg is larceny-theft, accounting for 78.7% of all reported crimes (715 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Leesburg 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 Leesburg, VA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.