Virginia, MN has a C safety grade (40/100) with a violent crime rate of 412 per 100,000, 17% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Virginia is a small municipal reporter (8,253 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with MN and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Virginia, MN carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 17% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Virginia, MN shows violent crime at 412 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,144.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 17% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Position in the state cohort
At 412.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Virginia ranks 14 of 276 — above 262 of the 275 other Minnesota cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +321.0% against the cohort median of 97.8. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Virginia's 412.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Park Rapids (414.0), St. Cloud (408.4), Crookston (416.4), Roseville (399.9). 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 539.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 412.0 in 2024 (-23.7%). The highest observed value was 557.0 in 2021 and the lowest 385.8 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 16.1% of the 211 Part I offenses reported in Virginia for 2024, against a median of 10.6% across comparable Minnesota cities — a gap of 5.5 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.
Property counts dominate Virginia'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 18.8 Census sq mi, Virginia logged 9.4 property and 1.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Virginia's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (73% of 211 offenses; mix index 5,487).
Violent offenses are 16% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Virginia offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (18.8 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 | 177 | 2144.7 |
| Larceny-Theft | 153 | 1853.9 |
| Burglary | 15 | 181.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 9 | 109.1 |
| Arson | 2 | 24.2 |
| Violent Crime | 34 | 412 |
| Aggravated Assault | 26 | 315 |
| Rape | 5 | 60.6 |
| Robbery | 3 | 36.4 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 8,337 | 539.8 | 3562.4 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 8,259 | 557 | 2482.1 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 8,276 | 531.7 | 2187 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 8,294 | 385.8 | 2097.9 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 8,253 | 412 | 2144.7 |
Virginia Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Virginia's 211 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 Minnesota cities closest to Virginia in population. Their populations run from 7,540 to 8,859, against 8,253 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Virginia sits at 412/100K violent (grade C); the Minnesota cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Virginia reported 34 violent crimes and 177 property crimes, for a total of 211 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Virginia's violent crime rate increased by 6.8%, and the property crime rate increased by 2.2%.
The most common crime type in Virginia is larceny-theft, accounting for 72.5% of all reported crimes (153 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Virginia 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 Virginia's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Virginia, MN rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Virginia is scored as a small-city UCR reporter (8,253 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.