The crime rate in Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA Metro Area is slightly lower than the US average. Violent crime is 19.9 per 100,000 people, while the US average is 22.7 per 100,000 people. Property crime is 38.9 per 100,000 people in Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, which is slightly higher than the national average of 35.4 per 100,000 people. This indicates that overall crime rates are relatively low in this area compared to other parts of the United States.
Crime is ranked on a scale of 1 (low crime) to 100 (high crime)
Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News Metro Area violent crime is 19.9. (The US average is 22.7)
Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News Metro Area property crime is 38.9. (The US average is 35.4)
NOTE: The city of Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, Virginia does not have FBI Crime Statistics. The closest similar sized city with FBI crime data is the city of Washington, District of Columbia. The charts below are detailed crime statistics for the city of Washington, Virginia. Click links below to see charts for each crime category.