County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
Columbia County, FL
At 69,698 residents, Columbia County is a large county in Florida. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Columbia County, FL reported 267 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Columbia County, FL agencies reported 186 violent and 424 property offenses. That equals about 267 violent and 608 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
186 violent offenses
267/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Columbia County, FL
Position in the state cohort
Columbia County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Florida counties
At 266.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Columbia County ranks 4 of 37 — above 33 of the 36 other Florida counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +73.4% against the cohort median of 153.9. 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 30.5% of the 610 Part I offenses reported in Columbia County for 2024, against a median of 20.7% across comparable Florida counties — a gap of 9.8 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 3 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 243.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 266.9 in 2024 (+9.4%). The highest observed value was 266.9 in 2023 and the lowest 243.9 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
424
Burglary
70
Larceny-Theft
316
Motor Vehicle Theft
38
Arson
4
Violent Crime
186
Murder
0
Rape
14
Robbery
10
Aggravated Assault
162
Reporting Agency
Columbia County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Columbia County's crime figures on this page originate from Columbia 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 Florida
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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.