Poquoson, VA has a B safety grade (63/100) with a violent crime rate of 313 per 100,000, 11% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Poquoson (12,788 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
Poquoson, VA is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a B PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 11% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Poquoson, VA shows violent crime at 312.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 664.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 11% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 32.0% of the 125 Part I offenses reported in Poquoson for 2024, against a median of 10.4% across comparable Virginia cities — a gap of 21.6 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Poquoson's 312.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Galax (310.2), Tappahannock (320.2), Front Royal (335.0), Richmond (336.9). 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 312.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Poquoson ranks 34 of 125 — above 91 of the 124 other Virginia cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +65.7% 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
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 236.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 312.8 in 2024 (+32.4%). The highest observed value was 312.8 in 2024 and the lowest 138.7 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Poquoson'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 15.4 Census sq mi, Poquoson logged 5.5 property and 2.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Poquoson's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (56% of 125 offenses; mix index 4,029).
Violent offenses are 32% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Poquoson offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (15.4 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 85 | 664.7 |
| Larceny-Theft | 70 | 547.4 |
| Burglary | 11 | 86 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 4 | 31.3 |
| Arson | 3 | 23.5 |
| Violent Crime | 40 | 312.8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 35 | 273.7 |
| Rape | 5 | 39.1 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 12,275 | 236.3 | 773.9 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 12,253 | 138.7 | 432.5 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 12,738 | 157 | 549.5 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 12,648 | 205.6 | 727.4 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 12,788 | 312.8 | 664.7 |
Poquoson Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Poquoson's 125 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 Poquoson in population. Their populations run from 9,137 to 16,258, against 12,788 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Poquoson sits at 312.8/100K violent (grade B); the Virginia cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Poquoson at 312.8/100K violent and 664.7/100K property - matched below outside Virginia (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
312.8/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
664.7/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Poquoson reported 40 violent crimes and 85 property crimes, for a total of 125 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Poquoson's violent crime rate increased by 52.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 8.6%.
The most common crime type in Poquoson is larceny-theft, accounting for 56.0% of all reported crimes (70 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Poquoson 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 Poquoson's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Poquoson, VA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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