This is compared to communities of all sizes, from the smallest to the largest. Summing up the numbers, Norfolk has decreased by 9% with regards to total crimes year over year.There are a total of 825 Norfolk police officers. These results are calculated by analyzing all cities in Virginia and across the US as a whole and determining how many areas have a lower crime rate than Norfolk. There is more crime than I'd like in this area.Do you feel safe walking alone at night in Norfolk?Extremely safe.

: This data reflects the 2018 calendar year and was released from the Excellent. The commonwealth had 200 violent crimes per 100,000 residents in 2018, the data showed.

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You can also print summary reports and/or maps using the data. Regardless of how Norfolk does relative to all communities in America of all sizes, when NeighborhoodScout compared it to communities of similar population size, its crime rate per thousand residents stands out as higher than most.Now let us turn to take a look at how Norfolk does for violent crimes specifically, and then how it does for property crimes. Date(s) & Update Frequency: Reflects 2018 calendar year; released from FBI in Sept. 2019 (latest available). You can search the data by crime type within proximity to an address, intersection or landmark. This is important because the overall crime rate can be further illuminated by understanding if violent crime or property crimes (or both) are the major contributors to the general rate of crime in Norfolk.From our analysis, we discovered that violent crime in Norfolk occurs at a rate higher than in most communities of all population sizes in America.

The NeighborhoodScout® search engine is covered under US Patents No. Violent crimes committed in Norfolk on a daily basis are 2.32 times more than than Virginia average and 1.22 times more than the average nationwide.

This equates to a rate of 5 per one thousand inhabitants.Significantly, based on the number of murders reported by the FBI and the number of residents living in the city, NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that Norfolk experiences one of the higher murder rates in the nation when compared with cities and towns for all sizes of population, from the largest to the smallest.In addition, NeighborhoodScout found that a lot of the crime that takes place in Norfolk is property crime. Crime This results in 3.4 police officers per 1,000 residents which is 4.5% greater than the Virginia average and 3.4% greater than the National average.There are a total of 25,766 sex offenders in Virginia.

The Norfolk crime heat map offers insight into the total crimes on a block group level. Crime risk indices are nationally comparable on a 1 – 100 scale, where 100 means safer than 100% of U.S. neighborhoods.Crime risk data are updated annually. The data is available for crimes that have been reported in the last 90 days. Raw crime incidents are sourced from all 18,000+ local law enforcement agencies – municipal, county, transit, park, port, university, tribal and more, assigned to localities, then built into NeighborhoodScout’s proprietary predictive models to provide a comprehensive crime risk profile for every neighborhood and address-vicinity in the U.S.By sending this Report you agree to NeighborhoodScout's

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From our analysis, we discovered that violent crime in Norfolk occurs at a rate higher than in most communities of all population sizes in America.

Based on this trend, the crime rate in Norfolk for 2020 is expected to be lower than in 2016.

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Updated annually. The chance that a person will become a victim of a violent crime in Norfolk; such as armed robbery, aggravated assault, rape or murder; is 1 in 208.

Only Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire had a lower violent crime rate.