West Wendover, NV has a F safety grade (17/100) with a violent crime rate of 846 per 100,000, 140% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
West Wendover is a small municipal reporter (4,494 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with NV and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
West Wendover, NV is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 140% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, West Wendover, NV shows violent crime at 845.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,535.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 140% 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 845.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, West Wendover ranks 1 of 11 — above 10 of the 10 other Nevada cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +115.9% against the cohort median of 391.7. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 35.5% of the 107 Part I offenses reported in West Wendover for 2024, against a median of 15.9% across comparable Nevada cities — a gap of 19.6 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 West Wendover's 845.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Winnemucca (693.8), Reno (529.6), Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (429.8), Elko (397.9). 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 869.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 845.6 in 2024 (-2.7%). The highest observed value was 869.0 in 2020 and the lowest 380.1 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate West Wendover'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 7.5 Census sq mi, West Wendover logged 9.2 property and 5.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
West Wendover leans on larceny-theft at 43% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,894.
Violent offenses are 36% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a small city.
West Wendover offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (7.5 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 | 69 | 1535.4 |
| Larceny-Theft | 46 | 1023.6 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 12 | 267 |
| Burglary | 11 | 244.8 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 38 | 845.6 |
| Aggravated Assault | 30 | 667.6 |
| Rape | 4 | 89 |
| Robbery | 4 | 89 |
| 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 | 4,258 | 869 | 1737.9 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 4,254 | 564.2 | 2303.7 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 4,473 | 380.1 | 2414.5 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 4,491 | 512.1 | 1514.1 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 4,494 | 845.6 | 1535.4 |
West Wendover Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind West Wendover's 107 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 Nevada cities closest to West Wendover in population. Their populations run from 8,216 to 293,100, against 4,494 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
West Wendover sits at 845.6/100K violent (grade F); the Nevada cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, West Wendover reported 38 violent crimes and 69 property crimes, for a total of 107 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, West Wendover's violent crime rate increased by 65.1%, and the property crime rate increased by 1.4%.
The most common crime type in West Wendover is larceny-theft, accounting for 43.0% of all reported crimes (46 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: West Wendover 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 West Wendover's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 West Wendover, NV rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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