Virginia school safety

City and district rankings from federal incident data · 2021-22 collection

1,973SCHOOLS

1,820WITH TRUSTED DATA

50RANKED CITIES

Safest ranked cities in Virginia

Percentile is against all ranked U.S. cities (higher = safer). Only cities with ≥5 trustworthy-data schools are ranked. Home value is Zillow's ZHVI.

#	CITY	SAFETY PCTL	SCHOOLS	HOME VALUE
1	Yorktown	79	12 of 12	$487,061
2	Arlington	68	39 of 42	$823,028
3	Spotsylvania	57	15 of 17	$440,788
4	Bristow	56	5 of 6	$747,849
5	Chesapeake	55	47 of 47	$429,006
6	Colonial Heights	55	6 of 6	$301,894
7	Fredericksburg	55	26 of 28	$487,339
8	Norfolk	52	44 of 51	$315,536
9	Haymarket	48	5 of 6	$828,920
10	Gainesville	46	5 of 6	$770,563
11	Chesterfield	45	6 of 7	$418,486
12	Richmond	45	92 of 101	$379,365
13	Woodbridge	42	37 of 40	$507,906
14	Newport News	40	40 of 44	$297,976
15	Waynesboro	40	7 of 8	$322,469
16	Chatham	40	5 of 6	$178,073
17	Glen Allen	40	17 of 19	$520,345
18	McLean	39	8 of 8	$1,499,172
19	Aldie	38	9 of 10	$1,136,432
20	Harrisonburg	37	6 of 12	$356,744
21	Martinsville	37	8 of 11	$135,786
22	Vienna	37	14 of 16	$1,197,214
23	North Chesterfield	37	15 of 16	—
24	Lebanon	36	5 of 5	$205,391
25	Nokesville	36	6 of 6	$821,229
26	Lexington	35	5 of 5	$372,594
27	Ashburn	35	24 of 25	$811,012
28	Staunton	33	10 of 13	$318,986
29	Springfield	33	23 of 24	$717,080
30	Ashland	31	5 of 5	$472,690
31	Leesburg	31	19 of 21	$867,655
32	Buena Vista	31	5 of 5	$204,841
33	Manassas	31	25 of 34	$561,776
34	Mechanicsville	31	14 of 17	$449,721
35	Hopewell	31	5 of 6	$237,497
36	Falls Church	30	25 of 27	$792,673
37	Petersburg	30	7 of 8	$253,907
38	Dumfries	30	10 of 10	$600,418
39	Midlothian	29	17 of 23	$475,871
40	Stafford	29	18 of 22	$562,006
41	Fairfax	29	24 of 25	$798,660
42	Charlottesville	28	25 of 28	$527,611
43	Bristol	28	11 of 12	$207,432
44	Annandale	28	8 of 8	$768,561
45	Warrenton	27	7 of 7	$692,086
46	Reston	25	10 of 10	$639,126
47	Herndon	25	15 of 15	$745,394
48	Alexandria	24	54 of 60	$679,077
49	Forest	24	5 of 5	$419,707
50	Suffolk	23	19 of 20	$392,538

Safest ranked districts

#	DISTRICT	SAFETY PCTL	SCHOOLS
1	GILES CO PBLC SCHS	90	5 of 5
2	YORK CO PBLC SCHS	72	19 of 19
3	ALLEGHANY CO PBLC SCHS	69	5 of 5
4	LEE CO PBLC SCHS	65	10 of 10
5	ACCOMACK CO PBLC SCHS	63	11 of 11
6	PAGE CO PBLC SCHS	61	8 of 8
7	ARLINGTON CO PBLC SCHS	61	39 of 42
8	MANASSAS CITY PBLC SCHS	58	6 of 9
9	ALBEMARLE CO PBLC SCHS	56	22 of 24
10	RICHMOND CITY PBLC SCHS	55	42 of 47
11	PATRICK CO PBLC SCHS	52	7 of 7
12	LOUISA CO PBLC SCHS	52	6 of 6
13	SPOTSYLVANIA CO PBLC SCHS	52	31 of 33
14	CHESAPEAKE CITY PBLC SCHS	50	46 of 46
15	COLONIAL HEIGHTS CITY PBLC SCHS	48	5 of 5
16	NORFOLK CITY PBLC SCHS	47	43 of 49
17	WINCHESTER CITY PBLC SCHS	47	7 of 7
18	SMYTH CO PBLC SCHS	47	13 of 13
19	STAUNTON CITY PBLC SCHS	44	5 of 6
20	FLUVANNA CO PBLC SCHS	42	5 of 5
21	ALEXANDRIA CITY PBLC SCHS	40	16 of 18
22	NOTTOWAY CO PBLC SCHS	39	5 of 5
23	CHARLOTTESVILLE CTY PBLC SCHS	38	9 of 10
24	NEWPORT NEWS CITY PBLC SCHS	37	39 of 41
25	SCOTT CO PBLC SCHS	36	14 of 14

Every Virginia city with schools

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