Photo: Mark Warner · CC BY-SA 2.0On property crime, Wytheville has a higher rate per resident than 88% of U.S. towns
Each year brought 0.8 violent crime and 26.9 incidents of property crime for every 1,000 residents (3.3 and 22.6 in the rest of Virginia). Wytheville’s overall Safety Grade is C (#48 of 84 graded towns in Virginia): more crime per resident than 73% 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 Wytheville
Among Virginia towns, closer to the middle
Virginia’s cities and towns report less crime than most states’, so Wytheville’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 43% of the 84 Virginia towns we grade, against 27% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
A college town
Wytheville is home to Wytheville Community College, with 1,541 students taking classes on campus (federal college data), and 5% of residents are enrolled in college (Census). Students who live in town count as residents, so they are part of the per-resident rate. How to read it ↓
A job center
Wytheville has 7,181 jobs based in town for 8,128 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 Wytheville’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Violent crime holds Wytheville’s grade up; property crime pulls it down.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Wytheville | Rest of Virginia | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1.2 | 3.5 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 0.6 | 3.5 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 0.6 | 3.3 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 1.2 | 3.2 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Wytheville’s police reported 20 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.8 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 Wytheville 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.
Reported crime is steady
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| Year | Wytheville property | Rest of Virginia property | Wytheville violent | Rest of Virginia violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 37.0 | 25.2 | 1.2 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 28.4 | 24.4 | 0.6 | 3.5 |
| 2024 | 27.3 | 23.2 | 0.6 | 3.3 |
| 2025 | 25.0 | 20.2 | 1.2 | 3.2 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
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.
213 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.
10 violent and 203 property, as reported to the FBI by Wytheville’s police.
11 people died in crashes on Wytheville’s roads in 2019–2023
Wytheville had 9 fatal crashes in five years, in which 11 people died; 2 were pedestrians. Most of these deaths (10 of 11) were on an Interstate passing through, so they say more about through-traffic than about the town’s own streets.
That is 26.8 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, above the median for Virginia towns of 5,000–25,000 people (3.9, 152 towns).
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.
Wytheville and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wytheville | C | 0.8 | 26.9 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Virginia towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wytheville | C | 0.8 | 26.9 |
| Abingdon | C+ | 1.7 | 15.4 |
| Bedford | C+ | 2.1 | 16.7 |
| Vinton | C | 2.0 | 19.1 |
| Ashland | C− | 4.9 | 20.4 |
| South Boston | C− | 4.5 | 22.2 |
The five graded Virginia towns closest to Wytheville’s population (8,128), 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 Wytheville. 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 Wytheville’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (8,133 in 2025); our figure for Wytheville is 8,128 (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 Wytheville
Is Wytheville, VA safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Wytheville reports more crime per resident than 73% of U.S. towns, a C Safety Grade and #48 of 84 in Virginia. Its police reported 0.8 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 Wytheville?
0.8 violent and 26.9 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 Wytheville?
Wytheville’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Wytheville”. 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.