County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
Cortland County, NY
Cortland County (46,809 people) sits in the mid-size county band in New York. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.
Cortland County, NY reported 58 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Cortland County, NY agencies reported 27 violent and 187 property offenses. That equals about 58 violent and 400 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
27 violent offenses
58/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Cortland County, NY
Position in the state cohort
Cortland County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable New York counties
At 57.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Cortland County ranks 3 of 39 — above 36 of the 38 other New York counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +130.7% against the cohort median of 25.0. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Small-count caution
The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable
Cortland County reported 27 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 46,809. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 89.3% of reported property offenses in Cortland County, against a cohort median of 81.0%. The remainder is burglary (16) and motor vehicle theft (4). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2022–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 3 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 55.5 per 100,000 in 2022 to 57.7 in 2024 (+3.8%). The highest observed value was 57.7 in 2024 and the lowest 21.4 in 2023. 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.
Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · mid-size county
Category
Count
Property Crime
187
Burglary
16
Larceny-Theft
167
Motor Vehicle Theft
4
Arson
0
Violent Crime
27
Murder
0
Rape
8
Robbery
0
Aggravated Assault
19
Reporting Agency
Cortland County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Cortland County's crime figures on this page originate from Cortland 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 New York
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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.