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Charleston, WV · the CityFunIndex

Safety in Charleston

Charleston ranks T#95 of 134 US cities for staying safe, with a safety score of 29 — Quiet. That puts it in the 30th percentile nationally and #1 of 1 in West Virginia.

safety score
29
Quiet
National rank
T#95 of 134
In West Virginia
#1 of 1
Percentile
30th

The typical city scores 50 for staying safe; Charleston sits 21 points below the median.

How safety is measured

Reported violent and property crime rates.

The safety score is the flip side of our crime measure — 100 minus the raw crime score — so a city with less of it scores higher.

Data sources: FBI Crime Data Explorer and city open-data crime portals.

Full methodology → Glossary The raw measurement is part of the Data plan →

Ranked around Charleston

  1. #93 Winston-Salem, NC 31
  2. #94 Richmond, VA 30
  3. T#95 Charleston, WV — this page 29
  4. #97 Atlanta, GA 28
  5. #98 Buffalo, NY 27

See the full leaderboard — The safest cities in America →

Top US cities for staying safe

  1. #1 Jackson, WY 100
  2. #2 Gilbert, AZ 99
  3. T#3 Boise, ID 98
  4. T#3 Santa Clarita, CA 98
  5. #5 Irvine, CA 97

More about Charleston

Charleston scores 61 overall (Fun) on the CityFunIndex. Its strongest factors: