County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
Cherokee County, NC
Cherokee County (28,774 people) sits in the mid-size county band in North Carolina. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.
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Data updated 2026-07-13
295
Property offenses
65
Violent offenses
360
Total · 2024
Cherokee County, NC reported 226 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Cherokee County, NC agencies reported 65 violent and 295 property offenses. That equals about 226 violent and 1025 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
65 violent offenses
226/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Cherokee County, NC
Position in the state cohort
Cherokee County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable North Carolina counties
At 225.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Cherokee County ranks 16 of 77 — above 61 of the 76 other North Carolina counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +85.9% against the cohort median of 121.5. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 77.6% of reported property offenses in Cherokee County, against a cohort median of 58.4%. The remainder is burglary (25) and motor vehicle theft (41). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 250.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 225.9 in 2024 (-9.7%). The highest observed value was 319.7 in 2021 and the lowest 218.9 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
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.
Property Crime
295
Violent Crime
65
Data Year
2024
Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · mid-size county
Category
Count
Property Crime
295
Burglary
25
Larceny-Theft
229
Motor Vehicle Theft
41
Arson
5
Violent Crime
65
Murder
6
Rape
8
Robbery
0
Aggravated Assault
51
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the crime rate in Cherokee County, NC?▼
In 2024, Cherokee County reported 65 violent crimes and 295 property crimes. The most common violent crime was aggravated assault, and the most common property crime was larceny-theft.
Is Cherokee County safe?▼
Cherokee County reported 360 total crimes in 2024.Property crime accounts for the majority of offenses. Compare with other counties in North Carolina on our state page for context.
Similar-Size Counties in North Carolina
A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the North Carolina counties closest to Cherokee County in population. Their populations run from 25,751 to 32,986, against 28,774 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.