County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
Cherokee County, TX
At 50,412 residents, Cherokee County is a large county in Texas. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Cherokee County, TX reported 99 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Cherokee County, TX agencies reported 50 violent and 237 property offenses. That equals about 99 violent and 470 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
50 violent offenses
99/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Cherokee County, TX
Position in the state cohort
Cherokee County sits mid-pack among comparable Texas counties
At 99.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Cherokee County ranks 81 of 231 — above 150 of the 230 other Texas counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +23.9% against the cohort median of 80.1. 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 higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 97.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 99.2 in 2024 (+2.0%). The highest observed value was 220.2 in 2022 and the lowest 97.2 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
237
Burglary
51
Larceny-Theft
151
Motor Vehicle Theft
35
Arson
4
Violent Crime
50
Murder
0
Rape
10
Robbery
2
Aggravated Assault
38
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 Texas
A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the Texas counties closest to Cherokee County in population. Their populations run from 49,130 to 50,748, against 50,412 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.