County crime profile · 2024 · very large county · property-led
Douglas County, NE
At 584,526 residents, Douglas County is a very large county in Nebraska. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Douglas County, NE reported 15 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Douglas County, NE agencies reported 86 violent and 560 property offenses. That equals about 15 violent and 96 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
86 violent offenses
15/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Douglas County, NE
Position in the state cohort
Douglas County reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable Nebraska counties
At 14.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Douglas County ranks 36 of 47 — above 11 of the 46 other Nebraska counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -65.3% against the cohort median of 42.4. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Share of the state cohort
Douglas County carries a large share of the reporting cohort’s total offenses
The 646 Part I offenses reported here are 25.0% of the 2,587 reported across all 47 comparable Nebraska counties in 2024. A county this large moves the statewide total on its own, so state-level changes should be read against its population of 584,526 rather than as a uniform shift.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 13.3% of the 646 Part I offenses reported in Douglas County for 2024, against a median of 23.5% across comparable Nebraska counties — a gap of 10.2 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 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 13.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 14.7 in 2024 (+10.3%). The highest observed value was 15.7 in 2021 and the lowest 12.7 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
On a very 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 · very large county
Category
Count
Property Crime
560
Burglary
129
Larceny-Theft
337
Motor Vehicle Theft
94
Arson
2
Violent Crime
86
Murder
0
Rape
30
Robbery
7
Aggravated Assault
49
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 Nebraska
A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the Nebraska counties closest to Douglas County in population. Their populations run from 37,167 to 322,608, against 584,526 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.