Huntington
City in Cabell County, Wayne County, 45,787 people.
Police
Sheriffs and county police in its counties: Cabell County Sheriff's Office, Wayne County Sheriff's Office.
A department is the place's own when its name is the place's and its FBI population fits the place's people (decision city-or-town-is-its-police-department). Agencies: FBI NIBRS master file 2025 batch headers; names from the FBI agency list, pulled 2026-09-29.
Where it sits
- Counties
- Cabell CountyWayne County
- People
- 45,787
- Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020 to 2024
How a case moves here
Huntington follows West Virginia law on arrests, release, and courts; the full set covers prosecutors, defense, and jails too.
- Who decides release first
A county magistrate sets bail first, with an on-call magistrate for arrests after hours. Magistrates need not be lawyers. Only the circuit court can release a person charged with an offense punishable by life in prison.
W. Va. Code 62-1C-1W. Va. Code 62-1-5- Time to see a judge
An officer must take an arrested person "without unnecessary delay" before a magistrate of the county where the arrest happened. The law sets no number of hours.
W. Va. Code 62-1-5(a)(1)- Money bail
Magistrates and judges may set money bail.
W. Va. Code 62-1C-1
Read from the statutes and court rules cited, 2026-09-30. Some of this is medium confidence and still being checked. The name of the Supreme Court-approved risk instrument was not found. Whether jailers release on a bail schedule without a magistrate was not found.
Crime
Offenses reported by Huntington Police Department, Huntington's own department. The county sheriff and state police may answer calls here too; their offenses are on their own pages.
The crime index
| Offense | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Per 100k | West Virginia |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violent crime | 296 | 347 | 358 | 361 | 300 | 740 | 277 |
| Murder | 11 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 12 | 5.9 |
| Rape | 34 | 34 | 43 | 46 | 39 | 87 | 56 |
| Robbery | 43 | 38 | 47 | 48 | 33 | 93 | 12 |
| Aggravated assault | 208 | 268 | 267 | 261 | 225 | 547 | 203 |
| Property crime | 1,629 | 1,595 | 1,588 | 1,781 | 1,652 | 3,670 | 1,213 |
| Burglary | 331 | 298 | 200 | 283 | 192 | 580 | 193 |
| Larceny | 1,132 | 1,111 | 1,198 | 1,348 | 1,340 | 2,728 | 927 |
| Motor vehicle theft | 166 | 186 | 190 | 150 | 120 | 361 | 93 |
| Arson | 28 | 23 | 33 | 7 | 9 | 45 | 12 |
Outside the crime index
| Offense | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Per 100k | West Virginia |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All offenses outside the crime index | 2,112 | 1,865 | 2,046 | 2,228 | 2,042 | 4,581 | 2,075 |
| Simple assault and intimidation | 554 | 555 | 667 | 664 | 620 | 1,362 | 680 |
| Vandalism | 498 | 554 | 567 | 448 | 383 | 1,090 | 327 |
| Fraud | 124 | 123 | 148 | 115 | 135 | 287 | 162 |
| Drug abuse violations | 766 | 483 | 475 | 835 | 725 | 1,462 | 646 |
| Weapons: carrying, possessing, etc. | 60 | 50 | 58 | 54 | 63 | 127 | 84 |
| Stolen property: buying, receiving, possessing | 55 | 50 | 66 | 59 | 65 | 131 | 39 |
| Forgery and counterfeiting | 23 | 24 | 38 | 18 | 14 | 52 | 41 |
| Embezzlement | 3 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 8.6 |
| Sex offenses (except rape and prostitution) | 11 | 12 | 14 | 18 | 20 | 33 | 33 |
| Prostitution and commercialized vice | 1 | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 3.1 | |||
| Gambling | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | ||||
| Other Group A offenses | 17 | 8 | 6 | 13 | 11 | 24 | 51 |
| Manslaughter by negligence (not in the total) | 1 | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 1 |
Offenses Huntington Police Department reported to the FBI in incident detail (NIBRS), each year, the second table by the arrest class each offense falls in. Per 100k: offenses per 100,000 people the department polices, 2021 to 2025 added together, beside West Virginia's rate over the same years. – means too few for a rate: the count is under 20.
Source: FBI NIBRS national master files, each agency's offenses and the FBI's population for it. West Virginia: the crime index: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, CrimeDB's chosen value per year (the state page's figures); outside it: FBI NIBRS, agencies that sent incident detail.