Photo: David Wilson · CC BY 2.0The nearest town with a Safety Grade to Glen Ferris is Fayetteville, 9 miles away
A 25-mile circle around it holds 3 towns with a grade. Glen Ferris has no police department of its own: it’s an unincorporated community (a census-designated place) in Fayette County. The Fayette County Sheriff’s Office reports to the FBI for the parts of the county without police of their own, so there are no figures for Glen Ferris alone, and no Safety Grade. Within 10 miles, Fayetteville is the one town with a Safety Grade.
What stands out about safety in Glen Ferris
Policed by the county
Glen Ferris is a census-designated place, with no town government. Crimes there are reported to the FBI inside the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office’s totals for the county. County police ↓
Counts, not rates
The FBI doesn’t publish how many people the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office covers, so its totals can’t be turned into a per-resident rate or a grade for Glen Ferris. County police ↓
The nearest graded towns
The closest West Virginia towns with their own police figures are Fayetteville (C+, 9 mi), Oak Hill (B−, 13 mi), Summersville (C+, 23 mi). Nearby towns can differ a lot from Glen Ferris. Nearest ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office reports
Reports to the FBI for the parts of Fayette County without police of their own, which include Glen Ferris.
Property crimes
Violent crimes
2025 offenses reported by the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office
Counts, not rates: the FBI doesn’t publish how many people each agency covers. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, Tables 10–11.
Crimes reported to the FBI for the whole area the department covers, by year.
The nearest West Virginia towns with a Safety Grade
| Town | Grade | Distance | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fayetteville | C+ | 9 mi | 1.0 | 17.2 |
| Oak Hill | B− | 13 mi | 1.6 | 11.9 |
| Summersville | C+ | 23 mi | 1.4 | 17.3 |
| Charleston | D | 26 mi | 5.7 | 34.6 |
| Beckley | D− | 27 mi | 6.5 | 73.4 |
| South Charleston | D− | 30 mi | 5.0 | 51.8 |
Straight-line distance from the center of Glen Ferris. Nearby towns can differ a lot from Glen Ferris.
Each town’s own police figures, per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
No one died in a crash on Glen Ferris’s roads in 2019–2023
That is about what is typical for West Virginia towns of 2,500–5,000 people: at their median rate (6.9 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Glen Ferris’s size would see about 0 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Glen Ferris’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.
Glen Ferris and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
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Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
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.
- A county agency covers a wide area. Its totals mix many communities, so they say little about any one of them.
- 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 Glen Ferris
Is Glen Ferris, WV safe?
There is no Safety Grade for Glen Ferris. The nearest West Virginia towns with a grade are Fayetteville (C+, 9 mi), Oak Hill (B−, 13 mi), Summersville (C+, 23 mi).
Who polices Glen Ferris?
The Fayette County Sheriff’s Office. Glen Ferris is an unincorporated community, and the department reports to the FBI for the parts of Fayette County without police of their own.
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Neighbors looking out for each other in Glen Ferris.
Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 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.