County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
Cherokee County, AL
Cherokee County (24,971 people) sits in the mid-size county band in Alabama. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.
Cherokee County, AL reported 196 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Cherokee County, AL agencies reported 49 violent and 264 property offenses. That equals about 196 violent and 1057 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
49 violent offenses
196/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Cherokee County, AL
Position in the state cohort
Cherokee County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Alabama counties
At 196.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Cherokee County ranks 4 of 56 — above 52 of the 55 other Alabama counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +161.6% against the cohort median of 75.0. 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
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 268.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 196.2 in 2024 (-26.9%). The highest observed value was 284.3 in 2021 and the lowest 196.2 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 15.7% of the 313 Part I offenses reported in Cherokee County for 2024, against a median of 21.6% across comparable Alabama counties — a gap of 5.9 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.
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
264
Burglary
65
Larceny-Theft
169
Motor Vehicle Theft
30
Arson
7
Violent Crime
49
Murder
0
Rape
11
Robbery
3
Aggravated Assault
35
Reporting Agency
Cherokee County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Cherokee County's crime figures on this page originate from Cherokee 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 Alabama
A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the Alabama counties closest to Cherokee County in population. Their populations run from 22,293 to 26,659, against 24,971 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.