Table 8
WEST VIRGINIA
Offenses Known to Law Enforcement
by City, 2017
State | Population |
Violent crime |
Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter |
Rape1 | Robbery |
Aggravated assault |
Property crime |
Burglary |
Larceny- theft |
Motor vehicle theft |
Arson |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Alderson | 1,171 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 25 | 6 | 19 | 0 | 0 |
Barboursville | 4,315 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 298 | 38 | 253 | 7 | 0 |
Beckley | 16,862 | 117 | 1 | 22 | 19 | 75 | 1,006 | 172 | 791 | 43 | 6 |
Bluefield | 10,148 | 121 | 2 | 13 | 9 | 97 | 212 | 65 | 132 | 15 | 4 |
Bridgeport | 8,401 | 24 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 20 | 268 | 22 | 237 | 9 | 0 |
Buckhannon | 5,610 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 237 | 20 | 201 | 16 | 0 |
Ceredo | 1,365 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 4 | 21 | 1 | 0 |
Charleston | 48,788 | 572 | 10 | 57 | 84 | 421 | 3,516 | 736 | 2,427 | 353 | 26 |
Charles Town | 6,062 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 78 | 36 | 41 | 1 | 1 |
Dunbar | 7,486 | 35 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 29 | 213 | 43 | 132 | 38 | 0 |
Fairmont | 18,604 | 56 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 38 | 370 | 100 | 220 | 50 | 6 |
Fayetteville | 2,839 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 68 | 6 | 59 | 3 | 0 |
Glen Dale | 1,433 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 2 | 12 | 1 | 0 |
Grafton | 5,121 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
Huntington | 47,933 | 428 | 16 | 54 | 120 | 238 | 2,082 | 599 | 1,303 | 180 | 17 |
Kenova | 3,029 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 83 | 4 | 73 | 6 | 2 |
Lewisburg | 3,935 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 147 | 4 | 143 | 0 | 0 |
Madison | 2,831 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 46 | 7 | 34 | 5 | 4 |
Martinsburg | 17,761 | 84 | 1 | 12 | 20 | 51 | 804 | 93 | 690 | 21 | 5 |
Mason | 927 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 59 | 3 | 56 | 0 | 1 |
Moorefield | 2,460 | 38 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 36 | 80 | 5 | 73 | 2 | 1 |
Morgantown | 31,215 | 83 | 0 | 10 | 16 | 57 | 480 | 88 | 369 | 23 | 0 |
Moundsville | 8,691 | 26 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 19 | 254 | 41 | 204 | 9 | 1 |
Mount Hope | 1,341 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 19 | 4 | 15 | 0 | 0 |
Nitro | 6,645 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 173 | 22 | 135 | 16 | 0 |
Oak Hill | 8,490 | 15 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 211 | 43 | 158 | 10 | 3 |
Parkersburg | 30,475 | 221 | 4 | 26 | 11 | 180 | 1,431 | 413 | 905 | 113 | 14 |
Point Pleasant | 4,219 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 83 | 14 | 65 | 4 | 2 |
Princeton | 5,935 | 26 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 19 | 209 | 66 | 133 | 10 | 0 |
Ridgeley | 638 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 0 |
Ripley | 3,243 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 24 | 2 | 22 | 0 | 0 |
Ronceverte | 1,731 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 12 | 1 | 0 |
South Charleston | 12,756 | 73 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 60 | 690 | 64 | 547 | 79 | 1 |
St. Albans2 | 10,476 | 16 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 32 | 0 | |||
Summersville | 3,411 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 118 | 2 | 111 | 5 | 0 |
Vienna | 10,409 | 22 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 19 | 352 | 25 | 318 | 9 | 0 |
Weirton | 18,870 | 21 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 188 | 39 | 134 | 15 | 2 |
Wellsburg | 2,634 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 33 | 6 | 25 | 2 | 2 |
Weston | 4,035 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 0 |
Wheeling | 27,196 | 332 | 2 | 15 | 31 | 284 | 584 | 153 | 407 | 24 | 1 |
Williamson | 2,883 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 31 | 7 | 24 | 0 | 1 |
- 1 The figures shown in this column for the offense of rape were reported using only the revised Uniform Crime Reporting definition of rape. See the data declaration for further explanation.
- 2 The FBI determined that the agency's data were underreported. Consequently, those data are not included in this table.
Data Declaration
Provides the methodology used in constructing this table and other pertinent information about this table.