County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
Amherst County, VA
Amherst County (31,307 people) sits in the mid-size county band in Virginia. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.
Amherst County, VA reported 220 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Amherst County, VA agencies reported 69 violent and 294 property offenses. That equals about 220 violent and 939 property crimes per 100,000 using a verified Census population join. Table 10 coverage is a voluntary subset of U.S. counties.
2024 UCR year
69 violent offenses
220/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Amherst County, VA
Position in the state cohort
Amherst County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Virginia counties
At 220.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Amherst County ranks 11 of 94 — above 83 of the 93 other Virginia counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +73.2% against the cohort median of 127.2. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 191.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 220.4 in 2024 (+15.0%). The highest observed value was 239.6 in 2023 and the lowest 191.7 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Mid-size county rows still aggregate voluntary UCR submissions. Per-100,000 rates need a matched 2020 Census population; unmatched stay count-only. County-wide totals rarely describe any single town inside the line.
Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · mid-size county
Category
Count
Property Crime
294
Burglary
11
Larceny-Theft
238
Motor Vehicle Theft
45
Arson
5
Violent Crime
69
Murder
0
Rape
14
Robbery
0
Aggravated Assault
55
Reporting Agency
Amherst County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Amherst County's crime figures on this page originate from Amherst 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.
Similar-Size Counties in Virginia
A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the Virginia counties closest to Amherst County in population. Their populations run from 29,800 to 33,413, against 31,307 here. Or launch the
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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.
County Table 10 totals are voluntary agency filings: incomplete coverage is not a county crime measure, and a countywide figure is not a neighbourhood verdict.