Virginia county safety map · 33,537 residents
Crime Map, Crime Rate, and Safety Score for Petersburg City, Virginia
Browse neighborhood-by-neighborhood crime scores across the scored Census block groups in Petersburg City. Areas without coverage remain unscored. Scores are modeled for consistent comparison across real estate, PropTech, and location intelligence workflows.
Petersburg City, Virginia local context
The county aggregate Safety Score is 3, with a F grade across 31 scored block groups.
Petersburg City, Virginia is a smaller county market, with an estimated 33,537 residents across 15,138 households.
The housing profile is more mixed than many county pages, with renter-occupied homes at 61.4% and owner-occupied homes at 38.6%.
The county profile also includes broad socioeconomic context, including a 21.7% poverty rate, a 10% unemployment rate, 25.4% bachelor's degree or higher attainment.
Commute context is included as well, with 5.7% of workers reporting commutes of 60 minutes or more.
CrimeScore pairs this county profile with neighborhood-level safety scores and block group map layers so teams can compare local areas inside Petersburg City without relying on one broad county-level view.
The county score ranks the county’s median underlying model prediction against other counties nationwide. It is not an average of the ZIP scores or displayed block-group scores. Supporting profile data uses publicly available government estimates.
Local search context
Is Petersburg City, Virginia safe?
Petersburg City has a county Safety Score of 3 out of 100, grade F, higher than 3% of US counties. Higher scores mean lower modeled crime.
One county-wide number can't describe Petersburg City. This page starts broad, then points you to the block groups, ZIP profiles, and address-centered views where the local differences actually show.
CrimeScore is modeled neighborhood safety context, not an official agency crime-rate report. Use it for comparison, API workflows, and map exploration, not as a guarantee about a specific person, home, or future event.
How to read the map
Each colored polygon is a Census block group, typically 600 to 3,000 residents. Greener regions score safer, and orange and red indicate lower modeled safety. Click any block group to see its score and grade. Create an account to review API plans for production use.
About the score
The county score provides national county-level context. ZIP estimates and local map scores summarize different geographic areas. These are modeled estimates, not official crime rates, causal explanations, or individual predictions. Prohibited high-impact uses remain out of scope.
Sources & dates
What this profile is based on
Scores describe modeled area conditions. They are not counts of reported incidents or a prediction for an individual address.
- Map score release
- v2-20260816-refined. A separate county score refresh date is unavailable.
- Community statistics
- ACS 5-year, 2020–2024. Rolled up from block-group records.
- Community profile generated
- June 15, 2026. This date applies to the community statistics, not the score.
- Crime reporting period
- A location-specific reporting period is not supplied with this profile. Export dates do not mean that incidents are current to that day.
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