Virginia Sex Offender Registry Search
About 25,800 people are on the Virginia register. Type your address and see, for free, how many live near your home.
Checking one person? A Background Check is $9.99 — name plus where they live or work, across 58 registries and criminal records.Run a Background Check
Public registry information. It may not be used for employment, tenant, credit or insurance decisions, or to harass or threaten anyone.
registered within 1 mile of this address
Trick-or-treating in Virginia this Halloween? Check sex offenders on your route.
Check the streets on your route for registered sex offenders before you go. Search any address and see who is registered nearby, with photos and official record links.
Search the Virginia registry by name. Checking a new babysitter, date or neighbor? Type their name.
Search Virginia's registry — and every other US registry at the same time. Continuously updated records with photographs, addresses, offenses and a link to the official registry entry for every match. Type a name; no code needed.
A Background Check is $9.99, paid once: the name plus where they live or work, across 58 registries and criminal records. Building this into a product? For developers: the API.
Photographs and official records
Matches come back as people, not rows — the registry photograph, date of birth, addresses and offense, with a link to the official Virginia record so you can verify at the source.
The whole country in one search
People move. One search here covers Virginia and every other US registry at once, so a registration in District of Columbia and Kentucky shows up on someone now living in Virginia Beach.
Every search, kept
Each check is stored with the results you saw — an audit trail you can reopen, share with teammates, and stand behind later. Upload a CSV to screen a whole list in one pass.
What the Virginia sex offender registry shows you, and what it leaves out. Knowing both keeps a search useful and fair.
What a Virginia registry search shows
- The person's registry photograph, name and any other names they use
- Their age, and their date of birth as Virginia publishes it
- Home, work and school addresses, each labelled
- The offense they were convicted of, and when
- Their risk level and whether they are keeping up with registration
- A link to the official Virginia Sex Offender Registry (VSP) entry so you can confirm it
What it cannot tell you
- Whether someone is safe. The registry lists a conviction, not a prediction
- Anyone who was never convicted, or whose requirement has ended
- Other criminal history. For that, see Virginia criminal records
- A reason to harass anyone. Using registry information to threaten someone is a crime
What registered sex offenders in Virginia are registered for. About half are registered for rape or sexual assault.
The most common offense among registrants in Virginia on our index is rape or sexual assault (57%), followed by sexual offense against a child (24%). Based on 45,004 registrants whose registry entry names the offense.
Tier or risk level
Tier 3 69% · Tier 1 19% · Tier 2 3% · Not stated 9%
Age today
Under 30: 6% · 30–39: 17% · 40–49: 24% · 50–59: 23% · 60–69: 21% · 70 and over: 10%
Who is listed
97% men, 3% women. 91% of entries include a registry photo.
- Rape or sexual assault57%
- Sexual offense against a child24%
- Failure to register22%
- Statutory (age-of-consent) offense12%
- Child sexual abuse material11%
- Soliciting or enticing a minor6%
- Kidnapping or unlawful restraint4%
- Non-sexual offense1%
Categories are our grouping of the offense each registry publishes for a registrant; a person can appear in more than one category, so shares can add up to more than 100%. Figures as of 2026-10-08. What each category means.
Searching the Virginia state site vs searching here for Virginia sex offenders. Both are free to start; here is what is different.
Virginia's own public search is Virginia Sex Offender Registry (VSP) — free, official, and the right place for a one-off look at a single state. Here is what changes when you run the same search here instead.
| On the Virginia state site | Searching here | |
|---|---|---|
| Coverage per search | Virginia only. A registration in any other state never appears. | Every US registry at once — the 50 states, DC and the territories. 58 registries in one search. |
| Your search history | Nothing is saved. Checking the same person next month means starting over, with no record you ever looked. | Every search is stored with the results you saw — a real audit trail you can reopen. |
| Narrowing a common name | Whatever the search form offers, one attempt at a time. | Date of birth, age give-or-take, city, ZIP, street address — and misspellings caught when you want them. |
| Checking a whole list | One name at a time, by hand. | Upload a CSV and screen everyone in one pass. |
| Working as a team | No accounts, so no way to share what has been checked. | Add teammates to one workspace with a shared history. |
| Building it into your product | No API. | A full REST API on the same data, when you are ready for it. |
| Near your address | A map you search area by area. | A free count of the registered sex offenders near your address, then everyone near it with photos on a map for $9.99 once. |
| Alerts | No alerts. You check again yourself. | Family Watch: up to 3 addresses, an email when someone registers, moves in or moves out near any of them. $34.99 a year, cancel any time. |
| Confirming a match | You are already on the official record. | Every match links straight to its official Virginia Sex Offender Registry (VSP) entry. |
Check your address free — create an account and see how many registered sex offenders live near it in under a minute.
How many registered sex offenders live near your Virginia address?
Enter your address and you will see how many live near it.
Checking one person? A Background Check is $9.99 — name plus where they live or work, across 58 registries and criminal records.Run a Background Check
Free: the count near your address. Optional: see everyone near it — $9.99 once, or Family Watch, $34.99 a year for 3 addresses with email alerts.
Public registry information. It may not be used for employment, tenant, credit or insurance decisions, or to harass or threaten anyone.
Virginia sex offender search coverage: the Virginia dataset, specifically. What a search here covers.
| Scope | Virginia is in every search by default, and one setting narrows to it alone — in the dashboard a dropdown, in the API jurisdictions: ["VA"]. |
|---|---|
| Date-of-birth matching | A date-of-birth criterion in Virginia resolves against age within the tolerance set by ageTolerance and returns age_match. Match strength is a label on every record — age_match — rather than a yes or no, so you set your own threshold. 7 of the 56 jurisdictions we cover resolve it the way Virginia does. |
| Best criteria to send | Send dob whenever you hold one — it is accepted in Virginia exactly as it is everywhere else, and it narrows rather than filters, so a record with thinner birth evidence still comes back on the name. In Virginia it resolves against age, returning age_match; send age instead when a date is not something you hold, and widen or tighten with ageTolerance. |
| Location search | Narrow to a Virginia city or ZIP, or search a radius of up to 100 miles around a point. Addresses come back as typed entries — residence, secondary, employment, school — so a work address in Virginia Beach is distinguishable from a home address. |
| Freshness | Continuously updated, so a Regular result is close to live, and every record returns the date it was last checked. |
| Verification | Every Virginia match links to the person's official entry on Virginia Sex Offender Registry (VSP), so any record can be confirmed at the official registry before you act on it. |
Registry data is not a consumer report, and decisions made on it are regulated in that use.
Virginia sex offender registry and its neighbors: how Virginia behaves next to the jurisdictions around it. People move, so one search covers the neighbors too.
Registration follows the person, not the state line, so screening that covers Virginia almost always has to read District of Columbia, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia in the same breath. One search here covers every row at once.
The step-by-step guide: how to search sex offenders in Virginia.
| Jurisdiction | Date-of-birth match | matchState | Registered population |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia | Age precision | age_match | ≈ 25,800 |
| District of Columbia sex offender registry | Full date | dob_match | ≈ 1,060 |
| Kentucky sex offender registry | Full date | dob_match | — |
| Maryland sex offender registry | Age precision | age_match | — |
| North Carolina sex offender registry | Full date | dob_match | ≈ 29,800 |
| Tennessee sex offender registry | Full date | dob_match | ≈ 27,800 |
| West Virginia sex offender registry | Full date | dob_match | — |
What a Virginia sex offender record shows: what comes back for VA. Every match is a person you can recognise, with the official record one click away.
The same layout for Virginia and every other US registry, so a match from District of Columbia reads exactly like one from Virginia Beach.
| Photograph | The registry photograph, newest first. |
|---|---|
| Name | Legal name and every other name on file. |
| Age and birth date | As Virginia publishes them, with how closely they matched what you typed. |
| Description | Height, weight, eye and hair colour, scars, marks and tattoos. |
| Addresses | Home, work and school addresses, each labelled, with city, county and ZIP. |
| Offense | What the person was convicted of, where and when. |
| Registration | Risk level, registration dates, and whether they are compliant. |
| Official record | A link to the person's entry on the Virginia Sex Offender Registry (VSP). |
Is the Virginia sex offender registry search free? The count near your address is free; a Background Check is $9.99.
Your count
How many registered sex offenders live near your address. No card.
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Names, photographs, offenses and distance for everyone within 30 miles of one address, on a map and as a PDF. Pay once, open for 30 days.
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Up to 3 addresses — home, school, grandparents — each unlocked, plus an email when someone registers, moves in or moves out nearby. Or $6.99 a month. Cancel any time.
Virginia offender search FAQ. Short answers before you search.
How many registered sex offenders are there in Virginia?
Approximately 25,800 people are on the Virginia register. It is a population that moves continuously — people are added, reclassified and released from the requirement every week — so treat the figure as scale rather than as a fixed number, and run a search when you need an answer about a specific person.
Should I search Virginia's official registry site or here?
Virginia Sex Offender Registry (VSP) is free and covers Virginia. Searching here covers Virginia and every other US registry in the same search, keeps a stored history of every check you run with the results you saw, narrows by date of birth, age, city, ZIP or street address, takes a whole CSV list at once, supports teammates on one workspace, and has a full API behind it. If you check people more than once, or people who may have lived anywhere else, that is the difference that matters.
How do I search Virginia sex offender records by name and date of birth?
Type a last name and add whatever else you hold — first name, date of birth, city or ZIP. In the dashboard that is a form; through the API it is one request with jurisdictions: ["VA"] to scope the answer to Virginia. Send dob whenever you hold one — it is accepted in Virginia exactly as it is everywhere else, and it narrows rather than filters, so a record with thinner birth evidence still comes back on the name. In Virginia it resolves against age, returning age_match; send age instead when a date is not something you hold, and widen or tighten with ageTolerance.
Does a Virginia search include people registered in other states?
It does when you let it. A search with no state scope runs across every US registry in one pass, which is how a prior registration in District of Columbia and Kentucky surfaces on someone now living in Virginia. Scoping to Virginia narrows deliberately to the VA roster — the two are one setting apart, and every response reports which registries answered.
What does a Virginia record contain?
Every VA record returns under the same normalized shape as the other 57 jurisdictions: identity and aliases, birth evidence with its precision stated, physical description, typed addresses, offense and conviction detail, tier or risk level, registration and compliance status, photographs newest-first, and match scoring on every record. One integration — or one dashboard — reads all of them.
Can I search Virginia by city or ZIP code?
Yes. Narrow to any Virginia city or ZIP, or sweep a radius of up to 100 miles around a point. Addresses come back as typed entries — residence, secondary, employment, school — so a work address in Virginia Beach reads differently from a home address, and each entry carries its own city, county, ZIP and coordinates where geocoded.
How current is a Virginia result?
The dataset is continuously updated, so a Regular result is close to live — and when a decision needs a current, moment-of-decision check, a live block re-verifies the named jurisdictions at the source in the same request. Every record returns its own lastCheckedAt, so currency is a value you read off the response rather than a claim you take on trust.
Check your own Virginia address for registered sex offenders
The count of registered sex offenders near your address is free.
Checking one person? A Background Check is $9.99 — name plus where they live or work, across 58 registries and criminal records.Run a Background Check
Free: the count near your address. Optional: see everyone near it — $9.99 once, or Family Watch, $34.99 a year for 3 addresses with email alerts.
Public registry information. It may not be used for employment, tenant, credit or insurance decisions, or to harass or threaten anyone.
Virginia county sex offender registries. Virginia county pages for every county we cover.
- Albemarle County sex offender registry
- Arlington County sex offender registry
- Chesterfield County sex offender registry
- Fairfax County sex offender registry
- Hanover County sex offender registry
- Henrico County sex offender registry
- Loudoun County sex offender registry
- Prince William County sex offender registry
- Spotsylvania County sex offender registry
- Stafford County sex offender registry
Sex offenders in Virginia cities. Virginia city pages, each with its own count and map.
Virginia county arrest records: criminal records by county. Each county’s jail roster, courts and inmate search; the state’s own page is Virginia criminal records.
Background checks in Virginia. Plain guides to what a check shows.
Virginia sex offender alerts. Get alerts for Virginia.
We'll email you when a registered offender is added or moves near your Virginia address — a recurring watch on our continuously updated data.
The count near your address is free. Family Watch — up to 3 addresses with email alerts — is $34.99 a year, or $6.99 a month, optional, and you can cancel any time.
This is not a consumer report and must not be used for FCRA-governed hiring, tenancy, or credit decisions — those run through FCRA Partner Access.
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