County crime profile · 2024 · small county · property-led

Ellis County, OK

Ellis County is a small county (3,749 people) in Oklahoma. FBI Table 10 county totals lead; rates appear only with a verified Census population join.

Data updated 2026-08-24

34
Property offenses
10
Violent offenses
44
Total · 2024

Ellis County, OK reported 267 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024

According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Ellis County, OK agencies reported 10 violent and 34 property offenses. That equals about 267 violent and 907 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
  • 10 violent offenses
  • 267/100K violent rate

What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Ellis County, OK

Small-count caution

The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable

Ellis County reported 10 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 3,749. 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

Ellis County reported the highest violent-crime rate among comparable Oklahoma counties

At 266.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Ellis County ranks 1 of 73 — above 72 of the 72 other Oklahoma counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +218.4% against the cohort median of 83.8. 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 213.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 266.7 in 2024 (+25.0%). The highest observed value was 266.7 in 2024 and the lowest 80.0 in 2021. 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 22.7% of the 44 Part I offenses reported in Ellis County for 2024, against a median of 16.4% across comparable Oklahoma counties — a gap of 6.3 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 dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort

Larceny-theft is 67.6% of reported property offenses in Ellis County, against a cohort median of 55.9%. The remainder is burglary (5) 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 34
Burglary 5
Larceny-Theft 23
Motor Vehicle Theft 6
Arson 0
Violent Crime 10
Murder 0
Rape 1
Robbery 0
Aggravated Assault 9

Reporting Agency

Ellis County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating

Ellis County's crime figures on this page originate from Ellis 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 Oklahoma

A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the Oklahoma counties closest to Ellis County in population. Their populations run from 2,488 to 4,484, against 3,749 here. Or launch the side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two jurisdictions directly.

ZIP Codes in Ellis County

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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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