County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
Cattaraugus County, NY
At 77,042 residents, Cattaraugus County is a large county in New York. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Cattaraugus County, NY reported 40 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Cattaraugus County, NY agencies reported 31 violent and 146 property offenses. That equals about 40 violent and 190 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
31 violent offenses
40/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Cattaraugus County, NY
Position in the state cohort
Cattaraugus County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable New York counties
At 40.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Cattaraugus County ranks 8 of 39 — above 31 of the 38 other New York counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +60.9% against the cohort median of 25.0. 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 17.5% of the 177 Part I offenses reported in Cattaraugus County for 2024, against a median of 11.1% across comparable New York counties — a gap of 6.4 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 67.8% of reported property offenses in Cattaraugus County, against a cohort median of 81.9%. The remainder is burglary (36) and motor vehicle theft (11). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2021–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 48.0 per 100,000 in 2021 to 40.2 in 2024 (-16.2%). The highest observed value was 53.2 in 2022 and the lowest 40.2 in 2024. 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
146
Burglary
36
Larceny-Theft
99
Motor Vehicle Theft
11
Arson
0
Violent Crime
31
Murder
0
Rape
5
Robbery
2
Aggravated Assault
24
Reporting Agency
Cattaraugus County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Cattaraugus County's crime figures on this page originate from Cattaraugus 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 New York
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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.