County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
At 79,462 residents, Bedford County is a large county in Virginia. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Data updated 2026-09-05
Bedford County, VA reported 115 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Bedford County, VA agencies reported 91 violent and 374 property offenses. That equals about 115 violent and 471 property crimes per 100,000 using a verified Census population join. Table 10 coverage is a voluntary subset of U.S. counties.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 68.7% of reported property offenses in Bedford County, against a cohort median of 78.2%. The remainder is burglary (72) and motor vehicle theft (45). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
At 114.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Bedford County ranks 54 of 94 — above 40 of the 93 other Virginia counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -10.5% against the cohort median of 128.0. 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
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 108.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 114.5 in 2024 (+5.8%). The highest observed value was 114.5 in 2024 and the lowest 98.2 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
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 | 374 |
| Burglary | 72 |
| Larceny-Theft | 257 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 45 |
| Arson | 5 |
| Violent Crime | 91 |
| Murder | 0 |
| Rape | 23 |
| Robbery | 1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 67 |
Bedford County's crime figures on this page originate from Bedford 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 Virginia counties closest to Bedford County in population. Their populations run from 70,045 to 83,757, against 79,462 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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