Crime in West Virginia (2024)
West Virginia agencies reported 22,424 offenses to the FBI in 2024: 4,029 violent crimes, 18,222 property crimes and 173 arsons, across 211 reporting agencies.
Per 100,000 residents
Against a 2024 population of 1,767,402 (Census estimates). A floor: West Virginia agencies that did not report contribute nothing.
Offenses by category
| Offense | Offenses | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Murder & nonnegligent manslaughter | 91 | 0.4% |
| Rape | 824 | 3.7% |
| Robbery | 167 | 0.7% |
| Aggravated assault | 2,947 | 13.1% |
| Burglary | 2,971 | 13.2% |
| Larceny-theft | 13,959 | 62.3% |
| Motor vehicle theft | 1,292 | 5.8% |
| Arson | 173 | 0.8% |
By county
Counties with sufficient reporting coverage (51 of West Virginia's counties).
- Barbour County
- Berkeley County
- Boone County
- Braxton County
- Brooke County
- Cabell County
- Doddridge County
- Fayette County
- Gilmer County
- Grant County
- Greenbrier County
- Hampshire County
- Hancock County
- Hardy County
- Harrison County
- Jackson County
- Jefferson County
- Kanawha County
- Lewis County
- Lincoln County
- Logan County
- Marion County
- Marshall County
- Mason County
- McDowell County
- Mercer County
- Mineral County
- Mingo County
- Monongalia County
- Monroe County
- Morgan County
- Nicholas County
- Ohio County
- Pendleton County
- Pleasants County
- Pocahontas County
- Preston County
- Putnam County
- Raleigh County
- Randolph County
- Ritchie County
- Roane County
- Summers County
- Tyler County
- Upshur County
- Wayne County
- Webster County
- Wetzel County
- Wirt County
- Wood County
- Wyoming County
Largest reporting agencies
| Agency | Violent | Property | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Huntington Police Department | 359 | 1,616 | 1,982 |
| Charleston Police Department | 251 | 1,443 | 1,707 |
| Beckley Police Department | 99 | 1,295 | 1,400 |
| Kanawha County Sheriff's Office | 273 | 982 | 1,274 |
| Parkersburg Police Department | 75 | 927 | 1,012 |
| South Charleston Police Department | 64 | 723 | 788 |
| Wheeling Police Department | 255 | 517 | 773 |
| Raleigh County Sheriff's Office | 127 | 580 | 713 |
| Morgantown Police Department | 64 | 598 | 667 |
| Cabell County Sheriff's Office | 52 | 483 | 539 |
| Mercer County Sheriff's Office | 79 | 343 | 427 |
| Clarksburg Police Department | 57 | 340 | 400 |
| Vienna Police Department | 16 | 344 | 360 |
| Berkeley County Sheriff's Office | 112 | 234 | 348 |
| Fairmont Police Department | 94 | 239 | 337 |
How to read these numbers
Counts are offenses reported by law-enforcement agencies to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program for 2024(Return A master file, which incorporates the FBI's own NIBRS-to-SRS conversion for agencies that report incident-based data). Nothing here is estimated: an agency that did not report contributes nothing, so totals are floors, not universes.
County figures use headquarters-county assignment: an agency's offenses count in the county where it is headquartered. Sheriff and state-police activity can span county lines; a county's figure is best read as "offenses reported by agencies based here." Counties where reporting agencies cover less than half of the policed population get no page; between 50% and 80% the page carries a visible partial-coverage notice.
Rates per 100,000 residentsuse Census Population Estimates (PEP) for the same year as the crime data. They appear only where the population served by agencies headquartered in a county is within 10% of the population that lives there. Where a police force covers several counties — the NYPD polices five boroughs from its Manhattan headquarters — the two geographies disagree, and a rate would be wrong by several times over in both directions. Those counties show counts without a rate rather than a number that looks authoritative and isn't.
Because non-reporting agencies contribute nothing, every rate here is a floor: the true rate is at least this high. Rates are most comparable between places with similar reporting coverage, which each page states.
Violent crime = murder + rape + robbery + aggravated assault. Property crime = burglary + larceny-theft + motor vehicle theft. Arson is tracked separately (from the FBI's de-duplicated SRS/NIBRS arson data) and is excluded from the property composite, following FBI practice. Aggravated assault excludes simple assault.
These figures will not match the FBI's published national estimates(which impute for non-reporting agencies) or the 12-month quarterly trend windows elsewhere on this site — different universes, both documented.