Alexandria Wrest, Alexandria, VA Violent Crime Rates and Maps
Alexandria Wrest is a neighborhood of 29,500 residents in Alexandria, about 5 miles west of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is violent crime in Alexandria Wrest?
Violent crime in Alexandria Wrest runs higher than in most US neighborhoods: an A-, with more violent crime than the neighborhoods where 63% of Americans live. Assaults make up 95% of it, and most of those are simple assaults, which involve no weapon and no serious injury. Alexandria as a whole grades A- for violent crime.
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Violent crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 795 of 1,000More violent crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
37% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more violent crime than Alexandria Wrest as a whole, and 63% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a violent crime safety score of 860, a CrimeGrade™ of A. Alexandria Wrest scores 795.
Crime is concentrated in a small share of places, so most neighborhoods score high on the 0 to 1,000 scale. That is why a score in the 800s can still mean more violent crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its violent crime with the people who spend time there, on one national scale, from green for the least to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy downtown or nightlife strip can show red while the homes around it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a solid connection. Compare high speed internet in Alexandria Wrest, Alexandria, VA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Alexandria Wrest in Alexandria, and anyone thinking about buying or renting a home there.
Business and enterprise customers: this free map shows neighborhood areas. CrimeGrade™ business reports map crime at about 66-meter detail and estimate it for one address and type of business. See business reports
What stands out about violent crime in Alexandria Wrest
One weak spot: simple assault. It grades B- in Alexandria Wrest, worse than in the neighborhoods where 83% of Americans live, against A- for violent crime as a whole.
How Alexandria Wrest compares within Alexandria
Every part of Alexandria Wrest where people live grades A or B for violent crime on the national scale. Violent crime grades across Alexandria Wrest run from A to B.
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Share of residents, by the violent crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Alexandria Wrest has less violent crime than 3 of the 15 neighborhoods in Alexandria. It covers much of the Alexandria Wrest and Seminary Hill areas.
Is violent crime going up in Alexandria?
Reported violent crime in Alexandria as a whole has risen 15% since 2019. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 1.9 to 2.1 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7). In 2024 alone, violent crime fell 12%.
Violent crime, change since 2019
AlexandriaUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Alexandria. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Alexandria
Violent, US
2016
-1%
+4%
2017
-9%
+4%
2018
-10%
+0%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
+1%
+4%
2021
+18%
+6%
2022
-1%
+5%
2023
+31%
+2%
2024
+15%
-4%
Violent crime rates and types in Alexandria Wrest
CrimeGrade™ estimates Alexandria Wrest has about 15 reported violent crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 13% more than the US as a whole and close to Alexandria as a whole.
All violent crime
Assaults
Robbery
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. Violent crime here includes simple assaults, which the FBI's violent crime rate leaves out.
Assault is the most common violent crime in Alexandria Wrest, about 95% of the total.
Each CrimeGrade™ here compares a violent crime with the people who spend time in an area, not only the people who live there. Rates count crimes per 1,000 residents.
Select a crime's name to see its map above. CrimeGrade™ business reports map each crime at about 66-meter detail.
Where and when violent crime happens in Alexandria
The Alexandria Police Department polices Alexandria Wrest; these figures cover Alexandria as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Alexandria as a whole, 37% of aggravated assaults happen at a home, against 53% nationally. Robberies happen most often at stores and businesses: 28% of them.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Robbery
Stores and businesses (28%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (37%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Shares of the crimes reported to police, 2022 to 2024. Reports with no time recorded are left out of the times.
Violent crime in Alexandria Wrest and nearby neighborhoods
Alexandria Wrest has less violent crime than 6 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Alexandria Wrest. Beside each violent crime CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with neighborhoods of similar size and density, Alexandria Wrest is safer than 73% of them.
Transit, tree cover and walkability in Alexandria Wrest
Among the traits that tend to go with violent crime, two set Alexandria Wrest apart: it has 52 buses and trains an hour at the evening rush, where most Americans have none nearby, and 0.2 bars and nightlife spots for every 1,000 residents, against 0.6 nationally. Places with busy transit tend to report more robbery, and it runs high here.
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Alexandria Wrest: C- (32 of 100).52 trips an hourUS: noneHigher than for 88% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Tree coverThe share of land under tree canopy where people live. Leafy neighborhoods tend to report less robbery.25% where people liveUS: 21%Higher than for 86% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Walk GradeBestNeighborhood's grade for getting through daily life on foot, traced along real walking routes to shops, schools and parks. Walkable places tend to report more assault.C (39 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 55% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Bars and nightlifeBars, lounges, clubs and casinos. Places with more bars tend to report more assault and robbery.0.2 per 1,000 residentsUS: 0.6Lower than for 74% of residents of US city neighborhoods
These traits tend to go with more or less crime; none of them causes it on its own. Sources: Census job counts and housing figures, OpenStreetMap and Overture business listings, CrimeGrade™ parking estimates, NASA night-light imagery, US Forest Service tree cover, EPA transit data and BestNeighborhood's Walk Grade.
What violent crime costs Alexandria Wrest
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, violent crime costs Alexandria Wrest about $18 million a year, or $594 per resident. The costs that reach a bill, such as medical care, lost work and the justice system, come to about $5.6 million, or $189 per resident.
Billed cost of violent crime per resident, per year
How CrimeGrade™ works
The violent crime CrimeGrade™ covers murder, rape, robbery and assault, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most, on one scale for the whole country.
It weighs each violent crime against the people who spend time in an area, so a busy downtown is graded on its workers and visitors as well as its residents.
The rates on this page count crimes for every 1,000 people who live here, the way police departments report them. Alexandria Wrest is a good example: many people work in, shop in or visit it, so its crime per resident looks worse than its CrimeGrade™ suggests.
Comparisons with US neighborhoods use the Census Bureau's block groups, small areas of about 1,400 residents, and count the people who live in each. The figures count crimes reported to police; many crimes, shoplifting above all, never are. Behind the grades, CrimeGrade™ tested 21,607 factors from 125 data families. For business owners, paid CrimeGrade™ location reports estimate crime at a single address for each type of business.
Where the numbers come from
Crime reports that police departments file with the FBI
State crime records and city crime data, where they are published
Published research on what crime costs victims and communities
These are estimates of reported crime for whole areas, not a record of what happened on any one street. CrimeGrade™ updates them once a year and provides them free and without guarantee. Check local sources before you rely on them for a decision.
