County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
At 52,589 residents, Columbia County is a large county in Oregon. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Data updated 2026-08-24
Columbia County, OR reported 95 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Columbia County, OR agencies reported 50 violent and 78 property offenses. That equals about 95 violent and 148 property crimes per 100,000 using a verified Census population join. Table 10 coverage is a voluntary subset of U.S. counties.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 39.1% of the 128 Part I offenses reported in Columbia County for 2024, against a median of 15.2% across comparable Oregon counties — a gap of 23.8 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 43.6% of reported property offenses in Columbia County, against a cohort median of 67.7%. The remainder is burglary (23) and motor vehicle theft (21). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
At 95.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Columbia County ranks 9 of 28 — above 19 of the 27 other Oregon counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +30.7% against the cohort median of 72.8. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
2021–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 98.9 per 100,000 in 2021 to 95.1 in 2024 (-3.8%). The highest observed value was 98.9 in 2021 and the lowest 76.1 in 2023. 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.
| Category | Count |
|---|---|
| Property Crime | 78 |
| Burglary | 23 |
| Larceny-Theft | 34 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 21 |
| Arson | 1 |
| Violent Crime | 50 |
| Murder | 1 |
| Rape | 4 |
| Robbery | 2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 43 |
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.
A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the Oregon counties closest to Columbia County in population. Their populations run from 26,670 to 69,413, against 52,589 here. Or launch the side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two jurisdictions directly.
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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.
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