Decision-support ranking comparing West Virginia cities by current violent crime per 1,000 using the currently published coarse crime context, then routing readers into each city brief for tract context and caveats.
Ranked rows are precomputed and served as static HTML from R2.
| # | Place | Metric | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wheeling Violent Crime has increased 3% since 2021. |
9.2 / 1k | → |
| 2 | Huntington Violent Crime has increased 19% since 2021. |
7.5 / 1k | → |
| 3 | Beckley Violent Crime has declined 16% since 2021. |
5.3 / 1k | → |
| 4 | Charleston Violent Crime has declined 14% since 2021. |
4.8 / 1k | → |
| 5 | Bluefield Violent Crime has declined 60% since 2021. |
3.9 / 1k | → |
| 6 | Clarksburg Violent Crime has declined 6% since 2021. |
3.0 / 1k | → |
| 7 | Parkersburg Violent Crime has declined 36% since 2021. |
2.8 / 1k | → |
| 8 | Martinsburg Violent Crime moved up by 1.5 / 1k from 0.9 / 1k in 2022 to 2.4 / 1k in 2023. The earlier baseline was too small for a reliable headline percentage. |
2.4 / 1k | → |
| 9 | Morgantown Violent Crime has declined 15% since 2021. |
2.3 / 1k | → |
| 10 | Bridgeport Violent Crime has declined 26% since 2021. |
1.4 / 1k | → |
| 11 | Charles Town Violent Crime has declined 10% since 2021. |
0.9 / 1k | → |
| 12 | Princeton Violent Crime has declined 78% since 2021. |
0.7 / 1k | → |
| 13 | Ranson Violent Crime has declined 59% since 2023. |
0.7 / 1k | → |
| 14 | Hurricane Violent Crime does not yet have a long enough history to describe a full trend. |
0.6 / 1k | → |
This page is useful for a current statewide pressure screen. It compares supported West Virginia cities by aggregate violent-crime rate before you open the deeper city briefs. Outside Colorado, this remains statewide fallback context rather than local incident-feed depth.
A current city rate does not tell you whether conditions are improving, how concentrated the pressure is, or which neighborhoods are driving it. Open the city brief and neighborhood pages next.