Indian River, Chesapeake, VA Violent Crime Rates and Maps
Indian River is a neighborhood of 31,000 residents in Chesapeake, about 7 miles north of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is violent crime in Indian River?
Violent crime is high in Indian River: a C-, with more violent crime than the neighborhoods where 90% of Americans live. Assaults make up 96% of it, and most of those are simple assaults, which involve no weapon and no serious injury. Chesapeake as a whole grades B+ for violent crime.
C-
Violent crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 341 of 1,000More violent crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
10% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more violent crime than Indian River as a whole, and 90% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a violent crime safety score of 860, a CrimeGrade™ of A. Indian River scores 341.
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 Indian River, Chesapeake, VA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Indian River in Chesapeake, 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 Indian River
Simple assaults run high. Indian River has simple assaults at more than double the US rate: 23.6 a year per 1,000 residents, against 9.7 nationally.
How Indian River compares within Chesapeake
Violent crime changes a lot from one part of Indian River to the next: 30% of residents live in areas graded A or B, while 46% live in areas graded D or F. Violent crime grades across Indian River run from A- to F.
30%24%46%
A or B 30%C 24%D or F 46%
Share of residents, by the violent crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Indian River has less violent crime than 1 of the 14 neighborhoods in Chesapeake. It covers much of the Indian River area.
Is violent crime going up in Chesapeake?
Reported violent crime in Chesapeake as a whole has fallen 26% since 2019. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 4.6 to 3.4 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7). In 2024 alone, violent crime fell 19%.
Violent crime, change since 2019
ChesapeakeUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Chesapeake. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Chesapeake
Violent, US
2016
-11%
+4%
2017
-8%
+4%
2018
-12%
+0%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
-10%
+4%
2021
+1%
+6%
2022
-8%
+5%
2023
-8%
+2%
2024
-26%
-4%
Violent crime rates and types in Indian River
CrimeGrade™ estimates Indian River has about 29 reported violent crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, about double the rate for the US as a whole and 55% more than Chesapeake 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 Indian River, about 96% 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 Chesapeake
The Chesapeake Police Department polices Indian River; these figures cover Chesapeake as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Chesapeake as a whole, 53% of aggravated assaults happen at a home, against 53% nationally. Robberies happen most often at stores and businesses: 45% of them.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Robbery
Stores and businesses (45%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (53%)
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 Indian River and nearby neighborhoods
Indian River has less violent crime than 5 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Indian River. 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, Indian River has more violent crime than 76% of them.
Tree cover, walkability and density in Indian River
Among the traits that tend to go with violent crime, two set Indian River apart: it has a Walk Grade of D (14 of 100) on BestNeighborhood, against 21 for the US as a whole, and 0.2 bars and nightlife spots for every 1,000 residents, against 0.6 nationally. Places like that tend to report less assault, yet assault runs higher here than that would suggest.
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. 87% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D (14 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 85% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery.22% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 78% 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 75% 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 Indian River
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, violent crime costs Indian River about $72 million a year, or $2,312 per resident. The costs that reach a bill, such as medical care, lost work and the justice system, come to about $16 million, or $526 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.
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.
