County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
Baker County, FL
Baker County (28,259 people) sits in the mid-size county band in Florida. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.
Baker County, FL reported 280 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Baker County, FL agencies reported 79 violent and 174 property offenses. That equals about 280 violent and 616 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
79 violent offenses
280/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Baker County, FL
Position in the state cohort
Baker County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Florida counties
At 279.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Baker County ranks 3 of 37 — above 34 of the 36 other Florida counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +81.6% against the cohort median of 153.9. 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 lower
Across 3 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 463.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 279.6 in 2024 (-39.7%). The highest observed value was 463.6 in 2020 and the lowest 279.6 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 31.2% of the 253 Part I offenses reported in Baker County for 2024, against a median of 20.7% across comparable Florida counties — a gap of 10.5 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.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 67.2% of reported property offenses in Baker County, against a cohort median of 77.2%. The remainder is burglary (26) and motor vehicle theft (31). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
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
174
Burglary
26
Larceny-Theft
117
Motor Vehicle Theft
31
Arson
0
Violent Crime
79
Murder
0
Rape
6
Robbery
2
Aggravated Assault
71
Reporting Agency
Baker County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Baker County's crime figures on this page originate from Baker 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 Florida
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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.