What is the crime rate in Pennington Gap, VA?

In 2025, the Pennington Gap Police Department reported 1 violent crimes and 21 property crimes to the FBI.

That is 64 violent and 1,340 property crimes per 100,000 of the 1,567 residents it serves.

Across Virginia the rates were 211 and 1,395.

Nationally they were 330 and 1,552.

Figures last updated on November 12, 2026.

Violent per 100,000: 64
Property per 100,000: 1,340
Violent crimes: 1
Property crimes: 21

Crime reported by the Pennington Gap Police Department, 2023 to 2025

Offenses known to law enforcement, reported to the FBI; rates per 100,000 residents of the area the department serves
Year	Violent crimes	Violent per 100,000	Property crimes	Property per 100,000	Residents served
2023	5	314	28	1,760	1,591
2024	0	0	21	1,340	1,567
2025	1	64	21	1,340	1,567

Violent crimes reported went from 5 in 2023 to 1 in 2025.

Property crimes reported went from 28 in 2023 to 21 in 2025.

In a small town a handful of incidents moves these numbers a long way, so one year’s change says little on its own.

Pennington Gap against Virginia and the nation

Crimes per 100,000 residents, 2025
	Violent crime	Property crime
Pennington Gap	64	1,340
Lee County	221	1,135
Virginia	211	1,395
United States	330	1,552

These are rates per resident; they are not adjusted for visitors, commuters or the size of the area, which raise or lower a town’s figures without changing anybody’s risk.

Crime reported in places near Pennington Gap, 2025

Each place’s own police department; rates per 100,000 residents served
Place	Distance	Violent per 100,000	Property per 100,000
Pennington Gap	—	64	1,340
Cumberland	16 mi	114	342
Big Stone Gap	16 mi	139	1,287
Harlan	17 mi	56	557
Rogersville	24 mi	275	1,668
Church Hill	24 mi	108	284
Mount Carmel	24 mi	90	251
Norton	26 mi	378	6,457
Gate City	26 mi	50	547

Neighboring departments count the same offenses the same way, but their areas, populations and visitors differ, so a difference between two towns is a starting point for a question, not an answer.

How to read these numbers

These are offenses known to the police and reported to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program: crimes nobody reported, or that a department did not record, are not in them.

Violent crime is murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, rape, robbery and aggravated assault; property crime is burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft and arson.

A department reports the crimes in the area it polices, which can differ from the town’s boundaries, and the FBI estimates the population it serves.

The FBI asks that these figures not be used to rank places or to judge how safe a neighborhood is: crime depends on many local factors, and the counts describe a whole town, not any street or home.

A year is shown only when the department reported all twelve months.

FBI: Uniform Crime Reporting statistics and their proper use

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