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West Virginia property crime city data
Validated city-level FBI NIBRS selected property-offense pages for West Virginia. This page summarizes candidate cities in the dataset; it is not a statewide crime-rate claim.
Candidate-city rate
27.25
per 1,000 residents across listed cities; not a statewide risk score
Validated cities23Current candidate pages
Candidate population355,655Sum of listed city estimates
Selected offenses9,691FBI NIBRS offense records
Highest-rate city candidates
Use the city pages for source notes, trend handling, and offense mix. Small or ambiguous places remain outside automatic publication.
Beckley
80.61 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents
South Charleston
55.91 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents
Huntington
39.67 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents
Nitro
38.08 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents
Parkersburg
33.62 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents
Vienna
33.24 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents
West Virginia city candidates
| City | Population | Selected offenses | Rate per 1,000 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beckley | 16,511 | 1,331 | 80.61 | Increasing |
| South Charleston | 13,165 | 736 | 55.91 | Increasing |
| Huntington | 45,068 | 1,788 | 39.67 | Increasing |
| Nitro | 6,328 | 241 | 38.08 | Increasing |
| Parkersburg | 28,795 | 968 | 33.62 | Decreasing |
| Vienna | 10,380 | 345 | 33.24 | Decreasing |
| Charleston | 46,431 | 1,474 | 31.75 | Decreasing |
| Clarksburg | 15,659 | 358 | 22.86 | Decreasing |
| St. Albans | 10,292 | 222 | 21.57 | Decreasing |
| Wheeling | 26,002 | 536 | 20.61 | Mixed |
| Morgantown | 30,330 | 610 | 20.11 | Decreasing |
| Dunbar | 7,103 | 136 | 19.15 | Decreasing |
| Bridgeport | 9,378 | 145 | 15.46 | Increasing |
| Fairmont | 18,099 | 253 | 13.98 | Decreasing |
| Buckhannon | 5,062 | 67 | 13.24 | Roughly stable |
| Hurricane | 6,794 | 89 | 13.10 | Trend pending |
| Oak Hill | 7,718 | 94 | 12.18 | Increasing |
| Moundsville | 7,700 | 91 | 11.82 | Decreasing |
| Bluefield | 9,191 | 98 | 10.66 | Increasing |
| Elkins | 6,696 | 30 | 4.48 | Trend pending |
| Weirton | 18,293 | 60 | 3.28 | Increasing |
| Princeton | 5,592 | 15 | 2.68 | Mixed |
| New Martinsville | 5,068 | 4 | 0.79 | Increasing |
Important context
These figures are based on reported selected property offenses and Census population context for validated city candidates. Agency reporting boundaries can differ from municipal boundaries, so the methodology page explains why ambiguous or tiny-denominator rows stay out of automatic publication.