Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. The jail figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site on September 23, 2026.
Loudoun County, Virginia, has about 443,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office, three city agencies and one state agency. An arrest leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the Commonwealth's Attorney files charges, a case in the Loudoun Circuit Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts each agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.
Related guides: Loudoun County public records, Virginia arrest records, Virginia inmate search and Virginia criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Loudoun County
The Loudoun County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Loudoun County. It reported 4,385 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside three of the county's cities are reported to the FBI by an agency of the city's own, listed here with the Census population and what each reported:
- Leesburg, 49,831 residents: 779 arrests reported for 2025.
- Purcellville, 8,965 residents: 46 arrests reported for 2025.
- Middleburg, 696 residents: 14 arrests reported for 2019.
A city on that list is reported separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Loudoun County: the Loudoun County State Police (state police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Loudoun County
The FBI publishes every agency's monthly arrest counts on the Crime Data Explorer. These are the full-year totals, all offenses, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026; a year with months missing or not reported is left out.
- Loudoun County Sheriff's Office: 4,385 for 2025, 4,058 for 2024, 3,777 for 2023, 3,902 for 2022, 3,454 for 2021 and 4,157 for 2020.
- Leesburg: 779 for 2025, 850 for 2024, 709 for 2023, 496 for 2022, 409 for 2021 and 564 for 2020.
- Purcellville: 46 for 2025, 61 for 2024, 68 for 2022, 71 for 2021 and 153 for 2019; 2020 and 2023 are missing months.
- Middleburg: 14 for 2019.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 5,210 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 5,210 in 2025 against 4,969 in 2024, up 4.9 percent.
Through March 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 1,072 arrests, against 1,182 in the same months of 2025.
Middleburg reported only part of 2025 (11 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Loudoun County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Loudoun County and kept in custody ends up, whichever agency made the arrest, though a city department may hold someone in its own cells first and a person cited and released at the scene is never booked. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and once the person is released or sentenced the record continues in the court file.
On an average day in 2025 the jail held about 280 people, down from about 390 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 476 beds, and it ran at 83 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office at sheriff.loudoun.gov (page title: Sheriff | Loudoun County, VA), phone 703-777-1021, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Virginia Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at vadoc.virginia.gov/family-and-friends.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Loudoun County
For Loudoun County the place to look is Online Case Information System, the Virginia courts' free statewide case search, which shows whether charges were filed.
Virginia does not let the public search another person's statewide criminal history. The record kept by the Virginia State Police goes to the person it belongs to and to employers and agencies the law authorizes; for everyone else the court's own case index is the public record of an arrest that led to a charge.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Loudoun County
The report of an arrest is released by the agency that made it; the jail and the court hold their own records of the same event, but not the report. Under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act the agency must answer within 5 working days, and it may charge the actual cost of searching and copying.
- An arrest by the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 703-777-1021.
- An arrest in Leesburg, Purcellville or Middleburg: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- An arrest by the Loudoun County State Police: the records office of the agency involved.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at loudoun.gov (page title: Submit a Request for Public Records | Loudoun County, VA).
- Your own statewide record: a request to the State Police Central Criminal Records Exchange; a check on someone else needs their signed consent.
Cities in Loudoun County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for three of the seven cities in Loudoun County: Leesburg, Purcellville and Middleburg. Lovettsville, Round Hill, Hamilton and Hillsboro have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Loudoun Circuit Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Loudoun County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Leesburg (49,831)
- Purcellville (8,965)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Loudoun County each year?
The Loudoun County Sheriff's Office reported 4,385 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 5,210 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Loudoun County?
Ask the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office at 703-777-1021; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at sheriff.loudoun.gov.
Where are people arrested in Loudoun County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Loudoun County?
The court files of criminal cases in the Loudoun Circuit Court are public and can be looked up through the court. The statewide criminal history kept by the Virginia State Police is not public; you can get your own. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Loudoun County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act the answer is due within 5 working days; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at loudoun.gov.
Is this the official Loudoun County website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.