Gate City Historic District · Photo: Betcantrell · CC BY-SA 3.0The crimes the grade counts fell 68% per resident in Gate City from 2023 to 2025
Typical years here bring 1.7 violent crimes plus 12.4 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, against 3.3 plus 22.6 in the rest of Virginia. Gate City’s overall Safety Grade is B−: close to the middle of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported from 2023 to 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 Gate City
A job center
Gate City has 1,595 jobs based in town for 2,000 residents (Census LEHD), so some reports involve people who work or shop there rather than residents. How to read it ↓
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 Gate City’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Violent crime holds Gate City’s grade up; property crime pulls it down. Its property rate (12.4) 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 per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Gate City property | Rest of Virginia property | Gate City violent | Rest of Virginia violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 7.9 | 25.2 | 3.5 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 14.8 | 24.4 | 2.5 | 3.5 |
| 2024 | 17.4 | 23.3 | 2.0 | 3.3 |
| 2025 | 5.0 | 20.2 | 0.5 | 3.2 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
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.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Gate City | Rest of Virginia | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 2.5 | 3.5 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 2.0 | 3.3 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.5 | 3.2 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Gate City’s police reported 10 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 1.7 per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.3 in the rest of Virginia and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Crime in Gate City per 1,000 residents
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.
And about 1 violent crime, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
11 crimes reported in 2025
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
1 violent and 10 property, as reported to the FBI by Gate City’s police.
No one died in a crash on Gate City’s roads in 2019–2023
That is about what is typical for Virginia towns of 2,500–5,000 people: at their median rate (4.8 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Gate City’s size would see about 0 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Gate City’s own rate (0.0) 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.
Gate City and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gate City | B− | 1.7 | 12.4 |
| Weber City | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Weber City reported to the FBI for 2023 and 2024 but not 2025.
Virginia towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gate City | B− | 1.7 | 12.4 |
| Stephens City | B | 0.5 | 11.6 |
| Amherst | B | 1.3 | 9.4 |
| Mount Jackson | B− | 0.8 | 14.3 |
| Chase City | C | 3.6 | 14.9 |
| Tappahannock | D | 4.7 | 27.3 |
The five graded Virginia towns closest to Gate City’s population (2,000), by grade.
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
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 Gate City. 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 Gate City’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (2,012 in 2025); our figure for Gate City is 2,000 (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 Gate City
Is Gate City, VA safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Gate City reports more crime per resident than 51% of U.S. towns, a B− Safety Grade. Its police reported 1.7 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 Gate City?
1.7 violent and 12.4 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Virginia reports 3.3 and 22.6; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Who polices Gate City?
Gate City’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Gate City”. 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.