New Martinsville, WV has a A+ safety grade (93/100) with a violent crime rate of 59 per 100,000, 83% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
New Martinsville is a small municipal reporter (5,049 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with WV and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
New Martinsville, WV carries a PlainCrime A+ safety grade with violent crime 83% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, New Martinsville, WV shows violent crime at 59.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 79.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 83% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade A+ from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Small-count caution
New Martinsville reported 3 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 5,049. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 42.9% of the 7 Part I offenses reported in New Martinsville for 2024, against a median of 9.4% across comparable West Virginia cities — a gap of 33.5 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to New Martinsville's 59.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Hurricane (59.2), Spencer (50.9), Ranson (69.2), Glen Dale (71.2). 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
At 59.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, New Martinsville ranks 37 of 49 — above 12 of the 48 other West Virginia cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -70.0% against the cohort median of 197.8. 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
Larceny-theft is 100.0% of reported property offenses in New Martinsville, against a cohort median of 85.7%. The remainder is burglary (0) and motor vehicle theft (0). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
New Martinsville's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row keeps violent and property totals in a closer balance. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Based on 3 reported violent incidents in a population of 5,049. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Across 2.7 Census sq mi, New Martinsville logged 1.5 property and 1.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
New Martinsville's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (57% of 7 offenses; mix index 5,102).
Violent offenses are 43% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a small city.
New Martinsville offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (2.7 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 | 4 | 79.2 |
| Larceny-Theft | 4 | 79.2 |
| Burglary | 0 | 0 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 3 | 59.4 |
| Aggravated Assault | 3 | 59.4 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
The chart omits 2022 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
Lead series · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 5,092 | 0 | 117.8 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 5,088 | 0 | 78.6 |
| 2022 | Insufficient reporting | 5,168 | - | - |
| 2023 | Comparable | 5,113 | 39.1 | 117.3 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 5,049 | 59.4 | 79.2 |
New Martinsville Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind New Martinsville's 7 reported offenses (4-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
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 West Virginia cities closest to New Martinsville in population. Their populations run from 3,722 to 6,360, against 5,049 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
In 2024, New Martinsville reported 3 violent crimes and 4 property crimes, for a total of 7 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, New Martinsville's violent crime rate increased by 51.9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 32.5%.
The most common crime type in New Martinsville is larceny-theft, accounting for 57.1% of all reported crimes (4 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: New Martinsville is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how New Martinsville's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 New Martinsville, WV rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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