County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
At 65,737 residents, Adams County is a large county in Illinois. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Data updated 2026-08-24
Adams County, IL reported 38 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Adams County, IL agencies reported 25 violent and 175 property offenses. That equals about 38 violent and 266 property crimes per 100,000 using a verified Census population join. Table 10 coverage is a voluntary subset of U.S. counties.
Small-count caution
Adams County reported 25 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 65,737. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 12.5% of the 200 Part I offenses reported in Adams County for 2024, against a median of 20.3% across comparable Illinois counties — a gap of 7.8 points. Offense mix is shaped by which agencies report and how incidents are classified as well as by the underlying offenses, so it describes the reported record rather than a settled difference in conditions.
2022–2024 direction
Across 3 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 44.1 per 100,000 in 2022 to 38.0 in 2024 (-13.8%). The highest observed value was 44.1 in 2022 and the lowest 36.5 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 43.4% of reported property offenses in Adams County, against a cohort median of 53.3%. The remainder is burglary (74) and motor vehicle theft (25). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
At 38.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Adams County ranks 36 of 77 — above 41 of the 76 other Illinois counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +2.0% against the cohort median of 37.3. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
On a large county row, county figures aggregate every participating agency inside the county. Participation is voluntary. Per-100,000 rates use a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census county population, never a Table 10 field; unmatched counties stay count-only. A large county line encloses very different communities.
| Category | Count |
|---|---|
| Property Crime | 175 |
| Burglary | 74 |
| Larceny-Theft | 76 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 25 |
| Arson | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 25 |
| Murder | 0 |
| Rape | 8 |
| Robbery | 0 |
| Aggravated Assault | 17 |
Adams County's crime figures on this page originate from Adams County Sheriff's Office's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
This agency reports via NIBRS, the incident-based system that captures more detail per offense (multiple crimes per incident, victim/offender data) than the older summary counts.
A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the Illinois counties closest to Adams County in population. Their populations run from 52,533 to 74,188, against 65,737 here. Or launch the side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two jurisdictions directly.
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Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Crime in the United States (CIUS) Table 10.
FBI Table 10 supplies county offense counts but no resident population. Where this page shows a per-100,000 rate, the denominator is a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census Bureau county population; unmatched county rows remain count-only. Statewide comparisons draw on the state UCR program. Verify with FBI.gov UCR and Census.gov QuickFacts.
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