County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
Butte County, CA
At 211,632 residents, Butte County is a large county in California. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Butte County, CA reported 171 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Butte County, CA agencies reported 362 violent and 652 property offenses. That equals about 171 violent and 308 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
362 violent offenses
171/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Butte County, CA
Position in the state cohort
Butte County sits mid-pack among comparable California counties
At 171.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Butte County ranks 20 of 56 — above 36 of the 55 other California counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +46.9% against the cohort median of 116.4. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 35.7% of the 1,014 Part I offenses reported in Butte County for 2024, against a median of 29.6% across comparable California counties — a gap of 6.1 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 161.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 171.1 in 2024 (+6.2%). The highest observed value was 207.4 in 2023 and the lowest 161.1 in 2020. 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.
Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · large county
Category
Count
Property Crime
652
Burglary
169
Larceny-Theft
461
Motor Vehicle Theft
22
Arson
3
Violent Crime
362
Murder
5
Rape
46
Robbery
21
Aggravated Assault
290
Reporting Agency
Butte County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Butte County's crime figures on this page originate from Butte 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 California
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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.