The 10 Safest Cities In Virginia For 2026

Located in the Blue Ridge Mountain region, Buena Vista ranks as the safest city in Virginia.

Buena Vista had about five times less violent crime than the national average, with only five instances of violence in 2024. As long as you don't run into any real panthers at Panther Falls, you should have a peaceful visit to an amazing swimming hole. Buena Vista also had the safest rate of property crime in Virginia, so it's not the worst place to live if you're always forgetting to lock your doors.

Welcome to Bridgewater, the second safest place to live in Virginia for 2026 according to the most recent FBI data.

Located in Rockingham County in Northern Virginia, the town maintained its spot on the list -- it has the second safest violent and third safest property crime rate of every place we measured.

Bridgewater is so safe that your grandma could leave her social security number on the driveway of her house and a good samaritan would just erase it for her and set up an automatic credit monitoring for her.

Next on our tour of the safest places to call home in Virginia takes us to Purcellville.

The property crime rate here is the fifth safest in the state.

Why is the property crime so low? Probably because everyone here enjoys fermented grapes or hops. According to TripAdvisor the best things to do in town include visiting the Catoctin Creek Distillery and several other vineyards. It's hard to be jealous when your always a little buzzed.

Purcellville is another burb of DC.

The fourth safest city in Virginia is Blacksburg.

An improvement in both violent and property crime rates gave the city of some 45,000+ the edge over its competitors this year. So it wasn't like other places got less safe -- Blacksburg just got more safe.

Blacksburg is dominated economically and demographically by the presence of Virginia Tech. It's located in the western part of the state.

Welcome to Austria. I mean Fairfax County, Virginia, home to Vienna, one of the safest cities in the state.

But while this might not be the capital of Austria, Vienna, VA still has to going on. Its violent crime rate would make you proud to bring it home to meet your parents. Add to that a vibrant community and a superbly educated populace and you have one of the best places to live in America -- Vienna scored a 10/10 on our SnackAbility score.

Vienna is located in Northern Virginia and is a suburb of DC.

Manassas Park takes the sixth place position for our ranking of the safest cities in Virginia.

The city has top ten finishes for both violent and property crime rates which is very solid for a city of its size. However, the cost of admission is kinda high as the median income is over $75,00 and the median home value tops out at over $257,000.

But for those that put down roots here are happily rewarded with safety and, I'd Image, parks.

Manassas Park is yet another suburb of DC.

Coming in as the safest place in Virginia is Lexington. That's a big improvement for Lexington over the past several years.

Apparently Stonewall Jackson is kind of a big deal around town as it seems like everything from cemeteries to municipal buildings are named after the guy. A quick Google search reveals that Stonewall Jackson was a confederate general, so.., that's a little disconcerting. Someone might want to tell them they live in the country that won the war.

Anyway, Strasburg broke into the top ten for the second time this year after finishing just off in the number eleven spot a couple of years ago.

Warrenton holds the title of the eighth safest city to live in Virginia. The population of Warrenton is 10,265, and it boasts low crime rates, with a violent crime rate of 97/100k people. These figures demonstrate the effectiveness of local law enforcement.

As the seat of Fauquier County, Warrenton ranks as the #17 safest for property crime with a property crime rate of 1,285/100k people. With no murder cases reported and other serious crimes like robbery and aggravated assault rare, Warrenton cemented itself as one of Virginia's safest areas.

You'd have to be dumb as fries if you didn't expect to see Dumfries on the list. After taking ninth lowest place last year it returns to the ninth spot on the list this year.

It just passed the threshold of 5,000 people to make it on the list several years ago and rightfully claimed a spot on the list ever since. It scores in the top ten for both of our crime rates of interest.

In what's becoming a little bit of a pattern, Dumfries is located in Prince William County just outside of DC.

With church in the name, you'd hope that Falls Church is safe. And you can be sure no one will push you around in town and make you fall as the city ranks as the tenth safest in the state.

Falls Church has the lowest level of poverty of any independent city or county in the United States which property helps contribute to the low violent crime -- you don't covet your neighbor when they have the same stuff you do. Falls Church is another DC suburb.