County crime profile · 2024 · very large county · property-led
Chesterfield County, VA
At 364,548 residents, Chesterfield County is a very large county in Virginia. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Chesterfield County, VA reported 175 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Chesterfield County, VA agencies reported 638 violent and 5,478 property offenses. That equals about 175 violent and 1503 property crimes per 100,000 using a verified Census population join. Table 10 coverage is a voluntary subset of U.S. counties.
2024 UCR year
638 violent offenses
175/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Chesterfield County, VA
Position in the state cohort
Chesterfield County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Virginia counties
At 175.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Chesterfield County ranks 21 of 94 — above 73 of the 93 other Virginia counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +37.6% against the cohort median of 127.2. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 10.4% of the 6,116 Part I offenses reported in Chesterfield County for 2024, against a median of 16.9% across comparable Virginia counties — a gap of 6.4 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.
On a very large county row, county figures aggregate every participating agency inside the county. Participation is voluntary. Per-100,000 rates use a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census county population, never a Table 10 field; unmatched counties stay count-only. A large county line encloses very different communities.
Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · very large county
Category
Count
Property Crime
5,478
Burglary
477
Larceny-Theft
4,439
Motor Vehicle Theft
562
Arson
22
Violent Crime
638
Murder
12
Rape
82
Robbery
83
Aggravated Assault
461
Reporting Agency
Chesterfield County Police Department NIBRS-participating
Chesterfield County's crime figures on this page originate from Chesterfield County Police Department's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
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 Counties in Virginia
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Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Crime in the United States (CIUS) Table 10.
FBI Table 10 supplies county offense counts but no resident population. Where this page shows a per-100,000 rate, the denominator is a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census Bureau county population; unmatched county rows remain count-only. Statewide comparisons draw on the state UCR program. Verify with FBI.gov UCR and Census.gov QuickFacts.