Cape Charles has an overall crime rate of 7 per 1,000 residents, making the crime rate here near the average for all cities and towns of all sizes in America. According to our analysis of FBI crime data, your chance of becoming a victim of crime in Cape Charles is 1 in 141. How does Cape Charles fare compared to other communities in Virginia of all population sizes? Cape Charles's crime rate is lower than approximately 54% of Virginia communities.

How does the crime rate in Cape Charles compare to similar sized communities across America? When NeighborhoodScout compared Cape Charles with other communities its size, we found that the crime rate was near the average for all other communities of similar size. So, whether Cape Charles's crime rate is high or low compared to all places in the US, when we control for population size and compare it to places that are similar in size, it is near the middle of the pack in crime rate; not much more or less dangerous, and about what we would expect from the statistics.

Now let us turn to take a look at how Cape Charles does for violent crimes specifically, and then how it does for property crimes. This is important because the overall crime rate can be further illuminated by understanding if violent crime or property crimes (or both) are the major contributors to the general rate of crime in Cape Charles.

For Cape Charles, NeighborhoodScout found that the violent crime rate is well below the national average for all communities of all population sizes. Violent crimes such as assault, rape, murder and armed robbery happen less often in Cape Charles than in most of America. One's chance of becoming a victim of a violent crime here is one in 1265, which is a violent crime rate of 1 per one thousand inhabitants.

Moreover, the rate of property crime in Cape Charles; burglary, larceny ($50 or more), grand theft auto, and arson; is 6 per 1,000 residents. This is about average for all cities and towns in America of all population sizes.