County crime profile · 2024 · very large county · property-led
Fairfax County, VA
At 1,150,309 residents, Fairfax 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).
Fairfax County, VA reported 94 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Fairfax County, VA agencies reported 1,079 violent and 16,386 property offenses. That equals about 94 violent and 1425 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
1,079 violent offenses
94/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Fairfax County, VA
Position in the state cohort
Fairfax County reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable Virginia counties
At 93.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Fairfax County ranks 72 of 94 — above 22 of the 93 other Virginia counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -26.7% against the cohort median of 128.0. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Share of the state cohort
Fairfax County carries a large share of the reporting cohort’s total offenses
The 17,465 Part I offenses reported here are 24.0% of the 72,702 reported across all 94 comparable Virginia counties in 2024. A county this large moves the statewide total on its own, so state-level changes should be read against its population of 1,150,309 rather than as a uniform shift.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 6.2% of the 17,465 Part I offenses reported in Fairfax County for 2024, against a median of 16.9% across comparable Virginia counties — a gap of 10.7 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-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 89.6% of reported property offenses in Fairfax County, against a cohort median of 78.2%. The remainder is burglary (479) and motor vehicle theft (1,229). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
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
16,386
Burglary
479
Larceny-Theft
14,678
Motor Vehicle Theft
1,229
Arson
8
Violent Crime
1,079
Murder
15
Rape
142
Robbery
399
Aggravated Assault
523
Reporting Agency
Fairfax County Police Department NIBRS-participating
Fairfax County's crime figures on this page originate from Fairfax 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
A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the Virginia counties closest to Fairfax County in population. Their populations run from 238,643 to 482,204, against 1,150,309 here. Or launch the
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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.