County crime profile · 2024 · small county · property-led
Doddridge County, WV
Doddridge County is a small county (7,808 people) in West Virginia. FBI Table 10 county totals lead; rates appear only with a verified Census population join.
Doddridge County, WV reported 205 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Doddridge County, WV agencies reported 16 violent and 39 property offenses. That equals about 205 violent and 500 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
16 violent offenses
205/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Doddridge County, WV
Small-count caution
The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable
Doddridge County reported 16 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 7,808. 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.
Position in the state cohort
Doddridge County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable West Virginia counties
At 204.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Doddridge County ranks 3 of 32 — above 29 of the 31 other West Virginia counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +225.9% against the cohort median of 62.9. 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 153.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 204.9 in 2024 (+33.3%). The highest observed value was 269.0 in 2023 and the lowest 153.7 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 29.1% of the 55 Part I offenses reported in Doddridge County for 2024, against a median of 18.7% across comparable West Virginia counties — a gap of 10.4 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
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 56.4% of reported property offenses in Doddridge County, against a cohort median of 72.3%. The remainder is burglary (11) and motor vehicle theft (6). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Small-county UCR rows are especially sensitive to which agencies filed. Per-100,000 rates use a matched 2020 Census population when available; otherwise counts only. Do not treat the county total as a town-level crime level.
Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · small county
Category
Count
Property Crime
39
Burglary
11
Larceny-Theft
22
Motor Vehicle Theft
6
Arson
0
Violent Crime
16
Murder
1
Rape
0
Robbery
0
Aggravated Assault
15
Reporting Agency
Doddridge County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Doddridge County's crime figures on this page originate from Doddridge 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 West Virginia
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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.