County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
Douglas County, KS
At 118,785 residents, Douglas County is a large county in Kansas. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Douglas County, KS reported 23 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Douglas County, KS agencies reported 27 violent and 67 property offenses. That equals about 23 violent and 56 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
23/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Douglas County, KS
Position in the state cohort
Douglas County reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable Kansas counties
At 22.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Douglas County ranks 64 of 70 — above 6 of the 69 other Kansas counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -71.4% against the cohort median of 79.4. 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
Douglas County reported 27 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 118,785. 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.
2021–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 3 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 42.1 per 100,000 in 2021 to 22.7 in 2024 (-46.0%). The highest observed value was 42.1 in 2021 and the lowest 17.7 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 53.7% of reported property offenses in Douglas County, against a cohort median of 62.5%. The remainder is burglary (17) and motor vehicle theft (14). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 28.7% of the 94 Part I offenses reported in Douglas County for 2024, against a median of 25.0% across comparable Kansas counties — a gap of 3.7 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.
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
67
Burglary
17
Larceny-Theft
36
Motor Vehicle Theft
14
Arson
1
Violent Crime
27
Murder
1
Rape
2
Robbery
1
Aggravated Assault
23
Reporting Agency
Douglas County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Douglas County's crime figures on this page originate from Douglas 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 Kansas
A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the Kansas counties closest to Douglas County in population. Their populations run from 61,898 to 169,245, against 118,785 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.
County Table 10 totals are voluntary agency filings: incomplete coverage is not a county crime measure, and a countywide figure is not a neighbourhood verdict.