Richmond, VA has a D safety grade (39/100) with a violent crime rate of 337 per 100,000, 4% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Richmond, VA Crime Rate & Safety
At 231,805 residents, Richmond is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against VA and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Richmond, VA carries a PlainCrime D safety grade with violent crime 4% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Richmond, VA shows violent crime at 336.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,179.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 4% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade D from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
D safety grade
336.9/100K violent
3179.4/100K property
-4% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Richmond, VA
Comparable rate records
Richmond's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Virginia cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Richmond's 336.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Front Royal (335.0), Chesapeake (339.4), Victoria (343.1), Kilmarnock (346.3). 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
Richmond reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Virginia cities
At 336.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Richmond ranks 31 of 125 — above 94 of the 124 other Virginia cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +78.5% 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.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 75.1% of reported property offenses in Richmond, against a cohort median of 86.7%. The remainder is burglary (615) and motor vehicle theft (1,222). 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 353.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 336.9 in 2024 (-4.6%). The highest observed value was 401.7 in 2023 and the lowest 336.9 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Richmond'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.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Richmond's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 59.9 Census sq mi, Richmond logged 123 property and 13 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Richmond's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (68% of 8,151 offenses; mix index 4,930).
Violent offenses are only 10% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (59.9 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Both rates shifted (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-16.1%
401.7 → 336.9/100K
Property Crime Rate
-15.6%
3768.8 → 3179.4/100K
Property offenses lead Richmond's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs VA
vs US avg
Property Crime
7,370
3179.4
1590.1
1711
Larceny-Theft
5,533
2386.9
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
1,222
527.2
-
-
Burglary
615
265.3
-
-
Arson
34
14.7
-
-
Violent Crime
781
336.9
222.8
352
Aggravated Assault
463
199.7
-
-
Robbery
219
94.5
-
-
Murder
56
24.2
-
-
Rape
43
18.6
-
-
Richmond Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Richmond 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
Richmond Police Department
Reporting agency for Richmond NIBRS-participating
Richmond Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Richmond's 8,151 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 Richmond in population. Their populations run from 97,027 to 257,248, against 231,805 here. Or use our
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Richmond at 336.9/100K violent and 3,179.4/100K property - matched below outside Virginia (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Richmond reported 781 violent crimes and 7,370 property crimes, for a total of 8,151 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Richmond?
From 2023 to 2024, Richmond's violent crime rate decreased by 16.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 15.6%.
What is the most common crime in Richmond?
The most common crime type in Richmond is larceny-theft, accounting for 67.9% of all reported crimes (5,533 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Richmond's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Richmond, VA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.