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Fairfax County Crime Statistics Virginia state

In the year 2007 there were a total of 18,655 crimes in Fairfax County, Virginia. With a population of 1,013,207, there was 1 crime for every 54.3 people in the county. Out of the 18,655 crimes reported, 17,710 were crimes against property (burglery, larceny, motor vehicle theft, and arson) and 945 were violent crimes (murder, rape, aggravated assault, and robbery).

2007 Crime Statistics
Crime	Reported	Crime Rate*
Murder	16	1.58
Rape	65	6.42
Robbery	506	49.94
Assault	358	35.33
Burglary	1,415	139.66
Larceny	15,012	1481.63
Vehicle	1,269	125.25
Arson	14	1.4

The 2007 crime rate was 1,841.2 incidents per 100,000 people. A 8.7% change in the total crime rate from 2006 (1,694.6 incidents). There were 93.3 violent crimes reported per 100,000 people resulting in a 7.4% change (from 86.6 incidents). Property crimes changed 8.3% from (1,608.1) the previous year to 1,747.9 per 100,000 people.

Fairfax County ranks #23 for violent crimes and #65 for crimes against property in the state. While it ranks #605 and #1,214 for violent and property related offenses respectively in the nation.

A snapshot of the most current crime statistics are shown in the chart to the left and historical criminal data is shown in the charts below.

Fairfax County Criminal Records
Fairfax County Jails

Year	Murder	Murder Rate*	Rape	Rape Rate*	Robbery	Robbery Rate*	Agg. Assault	Agg. Asslt Rate*
2006	15	1.5	62	6.1	446	43.9	357	35.1
2005	13	1.3	63	6.2	291	28.6	240	23.6
2004	4	0.4	40	4.0	362	35.8	273	27.0
2003	6	0.6	63	6.2	369	36.5	297	29.4
2002	8	0.8	56	5.6	336	33.6	199	19.9
2001	2	0.2	40	4.1	201	20.4	110	11.2
2000	2	0.2	38	3.9	132	13.6	84	8.7
1999	23	2.4	106	11.3	410	43.6	411	43.7
1998	16	1.7	131	14.2	402	43.6	421	45.7
1997	16	1.8	73	8.1	475	52.4	424	46.8
1996	15	1.7	94	10.5	524	58.3	369	41.1
1995	15	1.7	86	9.7	474	53.2	389	43.7
1994	20	2.3	116	13.2	454	51.7	408	46.5

Year	Burglary	Burglary Rate*	Larceny	Larceny Rate*	Vehicle Theft	Vhcl Theft Rate*	Arson	Arson Rate*
2006	1,545	152.0	13,338	1312.1	1,452	142.8	12	1.2
2005	994	97.7	13,729	1349.1	1,283	126.1	12	1.2
2004	181	17.9	14,953	1480.0	1,443	142.8	11	1.1
2003	506	50.1	15,721	1556.1	1,534	151.8	12	1.2
2002	1,591	159.2	15,796	1580.9	1,331	133.2	9	0.9
2001	1,467	149.0	12,674	1287.1	483	49.0	2	0.2
2000	1,117	115.2	10,154	1047.1	396	40.8	1	0.1
1999	1,483	157.7	18,366	1953.0	1,813	192.8	13	1.4
1998	2,180	236.4	19,910	2159.4	1,972	213.9	13	1.4
1997	2,162	238.6	22,996	2537.9	2,079	229.4	21	2.3
1996	2,132	237.4	23,417	2607.2	2,189	243.7	19	2.1
1995	2,392	268.6	23,689	2660.2	2,049	230.1	22	2.5
1994	2,237	254.8	22,642	2579.3	1,925	219.3	29	3.3

*Crime Rate is based on number of reported cases per 100,000 population