Photo: Public domain · Public domainNew Martinsville has no Safety Grade
The nearest town with a Safety Grade is Moundsville, 20 miles away, graded C. New Martinsville’s police reported to the FBI for 2024 and 2025 but not 2023, so there is no Safety Grade: the grade needs all three years, 2023–2025. A 25-mile circle around it holds 2 towns with a grade.
For every 1,000 residents, about 1 property crime reported
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 2 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
The years New Martinsville’s police reported
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| Year | New Martinsville | Rest of West Virginia | New Martinsville | Rest of West Virginia |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | not reported | 28.3 | not reported | 5.2 |
| 2023 | not reported | 25.6 | not reported | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 0.8 | 24.6 | 0.6 | 3.9 |
| 2025 | 0.8 | 23.7 | 1.8 | 3.6 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents, against the rest of West Virginia. A year the department didn’t report in full is a gap, not a zero.
13 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.
9 violent and 4 property, as reported to the FBI by New Martinsville’s police.
The nearest West Virginia towns with a Safety Grade
| Town | Grade | Distance | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moundsville | C | 20 mi | 2.4 | 20.1 |
| Glen Dale | B | 22 mi | 1.2 | 9.0 |
| Wheeling | D | 31 mi | 9.3 | 18.8 |
| Clarksburg | C− | 37 mi | 3.3 | 25.1 |
| Fairmont | C− | 40 mi | 5.1 | 12.7 |
| Bridgeport | B− | 41 mi | 1.2 | 13.8 |
Straight-line distance from the center of New Martinsville. Nearby towns can differ a lot from New Martinsville.
Each town’s own police figures, per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Two people died in crashes on New Martinsville’s roads in 2019–2023
New Martinsville had 2 fatal crashes in five years, in which two people died.
That is about what is typical for West Virginia towns of 5,000–25,000 people: at their median rate (10.2 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of New Martinsville’s size would see about 3 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so New Martinsville’s own rate (7.8) 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.
New Martinsville 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.
- One number for all of New Martinsville. 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 New Martinsville’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (4,997 in 2025); our figure for New Martinsville is 5,039 (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 New Martinsville
Is New Martinsville, WV safe?
There is no Safety Grade for New Martinsville. The nearest West Virginia towns with a grade are Moundsville (C, 20 mi), Glen Dale (B, 22 mi), Wheeling (D, 31 mi).
Who polices New Martinsville?
New Martinsville’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “New Martinsville”. 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.