Photo: Dion Hinchcliffe · CC BY-SA 2.0Herndon reports more crime per resident than 64% of U.S. towns
On crimes reported to the FBI by Herndon’s police in 2023–2025, it grades C+ for safety: #38 of 84 graded towns in Virginia.
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 Herndon
Among Virginia towns, closer to the middle
Virginia’s cities and towns report less crime than most states’, so Herndon’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 ↓
A job center
Herndon has 21,757 jobs based in town for 25,506 residents (Census LEHD), so some reports involve people who work or shop there rather than residents. How to read it ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Herndon’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; violent crime is the closer of the two to typical. Its violent rate (2.4) 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 (15.1) 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.
Violent crime, by year and by type
Herndon’s police reported 181 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 2.4 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 | Herndon | Rest of Virginia | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2.5 | 3.5 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 2.2 | 3.5 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 2.4 | 3.3 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 2.7 | 3.2 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
For every 1,000 residents, about 13 property crimes reported
And about 3 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.
Reported crime is steady
Reported crime per resident was steady from 2023 to 2025: the change is within ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of Virginia.
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| Year | Herndon property | Rest of Virginia property | Herndon violent | Rest of Virginia violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 17.1 | 25.3 | 2.5 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 14.3 | 24.5 | 2.2 | 3.5 |
| 2024 | 18.0 | 23.3 | 2.4 | 3.3 |
| 2025 | 13.1 | 20.3 | 2.7 | 3.2 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
402 crimes reported in 2025
69 violent and 333 property, as reported to the FBI by Herndon’s police.
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
One person died in crashes on Herndon’s roads in 2019–2023
Herndon had 1 fatal crash in five years, in which one person died.
That is fewer than 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 Herndon’s size would see about 5 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Herndon’s own rate (0.8) 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.
Herndon and its neighbors
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Dranesville, Reston, McNair, Hutchison and Oak Grove are unincorporated communities (census-designated places) with no police department of their own.
Virginia towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Herndon | C+ | 2.4 | 15.1 |
| Staunton | B− | 1.6 | 14.3 |
| Waynesboro | C | 2.4 | 16.6 |
| Hopewell | C− | 3.8 | 17.3 |
| Winchester | C− | 2.6 | 23.3 |
| Fairfax | C− | 1.1 | 29.8 |
The five graded Virginia towns closest to Herndon’s population (25,506), 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 Herndon. 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 Herndon’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (25,334 in 2025); our figure for Herndon is 25,506 (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 Herndon
Is Herndon, VA safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Herndon reports more crime per resident than 64% of U.S. towns, a C+ Safety Grade and #38 of 84 in Virginia. Its police reported 2.4 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 Herndon?
2.4 violent and 15.1 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 Herndon?
Reported crime per resident was steady from 2023 to 2025: the change is within ordinary year-to-year swings.
How many homicides were there in Herndon in 2025?
Herndon’s police reported 1 homicides to the FBI for 2025, 3.9 per 100,000 residents. Across U.S. cities and towns in the FBI’s tables the 2025 figure was 4.6.
Who polices Herndon?
Herndon’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Herndon”. 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.