Photo: Famartin · CC BY-SA 4.0Reported crime per resident in Front Royal fell 30% from 2023 to 2025
Overall, Front Royal grades C+ for safety (#38 of 84 graded towns in Virginia): more crime per resident than 64% of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported to the FBI in 2023–2025.
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. “Rest of VA” is every other Virginia city and town in the FBI’s tables; the U.S. figure is the FBI’s national estimate as published, averaged over the three years. The FBI publishes no national homicide or robbery rate in our data, so those compare with all U.S. cities and towns in its tables.
What stands out about safety in Front Royal
Among Virginia towns, closer to the middle
Virginia’s cities and towns report less crime than most states’, so Front Royal’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 55% of the 84 Virginia towns we grade, against 36% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
Reported crime is falling
Crime reported per resident fell from 2023 to 2025 by more than ordinary year-to-year swings, on the grade’s own score. Trend ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Front Royal’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Both violent and property crime are higher than in most U.S. towns; property crime is the closer of the two to typical. Its violent rate (2.7) is below the FBI’s national estimate (3.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns. Its property rate (14.4) is below the FBI’s national estimate (17.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns.
Reported crime is falling
Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of Virginia.
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| Year | Front Royal property | Rest of Virginia property | Front Royal violent | Rest of Virginia violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 15.1 | 25.2 | 2.1 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 16.9 | 24.5 | 2.3 | 3.5 |
| 2024 | 15.3 | 23.3 | 3.3 | 3.3 |
| 2025 | 11.0 | 20.3 | 2.4 | 3.2 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Violent crime, by year and by type
Front Royal’s police reported 125 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 2.7 per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.3 in the rest of Virginia and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
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| Year | Front Royal | Rest of Virginia | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2.1 | 3.5 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 2.3 | 3.5 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 3.3 | 3.3 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 2.4 | 3.2 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
For every 1,000 residents, about 11 property crimes reported
And about 2 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Crimes reported to police in 2025 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.
212 crimes reported in 2025
38 violent and 174 property, as reported to the FBI by Front Royal’s police.
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
Two people died in crashes on Front Royal’s roads in 2019–2023
Front Royal had 2 fatal crashes in five years, in which two people died; 1 was a pedestrian.
That is about what is typical for Virginia towns of 5,000–25,000 people: at their median rate (3.9 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Front Royal’s size would see about 3 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Front Royal’s own rate (2.6) is context, not a ranking.
Deaths are counted where the crash happened, not where the people lived: a highway through town adds through-traffic deaths, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Town rates sit below state and U.S. rates because a third of fatal crashes happen outside any town. Road safety is described here and is not part of the Safety Grade. Source: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023.
Front Royal and its neighbors
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Front Royal | C+ | 2.7 | 14.4 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Virginia towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Front Royal | C+ | 2.7 | 14.4 |
| Vienna | B+ | 0.9 | 8.6 |
| Manassas Park | B+ | 1.2 | 7.6 |
| Falls Church | B− | 1.0 | 15.9 |
| Williamsburg | B− | 2.1 | 12.3 |
| Bristol | D | 4.8 | 32.2 |
The five graded Virginia towns closest to Front Royal’s population (15,722), by grade.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- It’s reported crime. Only incidents reported to and recorded by police appear here. Many crimes are never reported to police.
- One number for all of Front Royal. A town-wide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of town to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Front Royal’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (15,779 in 2025); our figure for Front Royal is 15,722 (2025 Census estimate).
- Gaps are real gaps. A missing year means the department didn’t report a full year, not that nothing happened.
How the grade is calculated, for every town: How TownRatings grades safety →
Questions about safety in Front Royal
Is Front Royal, VA safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Front Royal reports more crime per resident than 64% of U.S. towns, a C+ Safety Grade and #38 of 84 in Virginia. Its police reported 2.7 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.3 in the rest of Virginia and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Front Royal?
2.7 violent and 14.4 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Virginia reports 3.3 and 22.7; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Is crime going up or down in Front Royal?
Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings.
Who polices Front Royal?
Front Royal’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Front Royal”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
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Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 2025, and state and national rates. Counts are crimes reported to police, not convictions. The Safety Grade is our own summary of that data, not an official rating. Road deaths: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023. This isn’t an official statement of public safety. In an emergency, call 911.