Pulaski, VA has a F safety grade (23/100) with a violent crime rate of 567 per 100,000, 61% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Pulaski is a small municipal reporter (8,818 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with VA and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Pulaski, VA is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 61% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Pulaski, VA shows violent crime at 567 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,324.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 61% 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 567.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Pulaski ranks 8 of 125 — above 117 of the 124 other Virginia cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +200.4% 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 368.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 567.0 in 2024 (+53.7%). The highest observed value was 567.0 in 2024 and the lowest 174.1 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Pulaski's 567.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Farmville (548.3), Ashland (594.7), Fredericksburg (603.9), Roanoke (620.4). 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 are 19.6% of the 255 Part I offenses reported in Pulaski for 2024, against a median of 10.4% across comparable Virginia cities — a gap of 9.2 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-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 75.6% of reported property offenses in Pulaski, against a cohort median of 86.7%. The remainder is burglary (39) and motor vehicle theft (11). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Pulaski'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.
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 8.1 Census sq mi, Pulaski logged 25.4 property and 6.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Pulaski's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (61% of 255 offenses; mix index 4,211).
Violent offenses are 20% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Pulaski offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (8.1 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 | 205 | 2324.8 |
| Larceny-Theft | 155 | 1757.8 |
| Burglary | 39 | 442.3 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 11 | 124.7 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 50 | 567 |
| Aggravated Assault | 41 | 465 |
| Rape | 5 | 56.7 |
| Robbery | 3 | 34 |
| Murder | 1 | 11.3 |
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 | 8,674 | 368.9 | 3147.3 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 8,615 | 174.1 | 2948.3 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 8,944 | 346.6 | 3443.6 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 8,866 | 507.6 | 2977.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 8,818 | 567 | 2324.8 |
Pulaski Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Pulaski's 255 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 Pulaski in population. Their populations run from 7,757 to 9,137, against 8,818 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Pulaski sits at 567/100K violent (grade F); the Virginia cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Pulaski reported 50 violent crimes and 205 property crimes, for a total of 255 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Pulaski's violent crime rate increased by 11.7%, and the property crime rate decreased by 21.9%.
The most common crime type in Pulaski is larceny-theft, accounting for 60.8% of all reported crimes (155 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Pulaski 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 Pulaski's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Pulaski, VA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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