Tazewell, VA has a A safety grade (76/100) with a violent crime rate of 164 per 100,000, 54% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Tazewell is a small municipal reporter (4,282 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with VA and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Tazewell, VA is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 54% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Tazewell, VA shows violent crime at 163.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 887.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 54% 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
Tazewell reported 7 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 4,282. 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Tazewell's 163.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Onancock (173.3), Smithfield (175.1), Vinton (149.2), Covington (181.1). 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 68.4% of reported property offenses in Tazewell, against a cohort median of 86.7%. The remainder is burglary (5) and motor vehicle theft (7). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 15.6% of the 45 Part I offenses reported in Tazewell for 2024, against a median of 10.4% across comparable Virginia cities — a gap of 5.2 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 146.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 163.5 in 2024 (+11.4%). The highest observed value was 228.4 in 2023 and the lowest 114.3 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 163.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Tazewell ranks 68 of 125 — above 57 of the 124 other Virginia cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -13.9% against the cohort median of 189.9. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Property counts dominate Tazewell'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.
Based on 7 reported violent incidents in a population of 4,282. 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 6.9 Census sq mi, Tazewell logged 5.5 property and 1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Tazewell leans on larceny-theft at 58% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,891.
Violent offenses are 16% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Tazewell offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (6.9 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 38 | 887.4 |
| Larceny-Theft | 26 | 607.2 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 7 | 163.5 |
| Burglary | 5 | 116.8 |
| Arson | 1 | 23.4 |
| Violent Crime | 7 | 163.5 |
| Aggravated Assault | 6 | 140.1 |
| Rape | 1 | 23.4 |
| 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 | 4,088 | 146.8 | 2372.8 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 4,065 | 221.4 | 4206.6 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 4,374 | 114.3 | 1531.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 4,379 | 228.4 | 1164.6 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 4,282 | 163.5 | 887.4 |
Tazewell Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Tazewell's 45 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 Tazewell in population. Their populations run from 3,574 to 4,990, against 4,282 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Tazewell sits at 163.5/100K violent (grade A); the Virginia cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Tazewell reported 7 violent crimes and 38 property crimes, for a total of 45 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Tazewell's violent crime rate decreased by 28.4%, and the property crime rate decreased by 23.8%.
The most common crime type in Tazewell is larceny-theft, accounting for 57.8% of all reported crimes (26 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Tazewell 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 Tazewell's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Tazewell, VA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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