County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
Franklin County, KS
Franklin County (25,996 people) sits in the mid-size county band in Kansas. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.
Franklin County, KS reported 92 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Franklin County, KS agencies reported 24 violent and 87 property offenses. That equals about 92 violent and 335 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
24 violent offenses
92/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Franklin County, KS
Small-count caution
The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable
Franklin County reported 24 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 25,996. 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 123.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 92.3 in 2024 (-25.0%). The highest observed value was 157.7 in 2022 and the lowest 92.3 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 21.6% of the 111 Part I offenses reported in Franklin County for 2024, against a median of 25.0% across comparable Kansas counties — a gap of 3.4 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.
Position in the state cohort
Franklin County sits mid-pack among comparable Kansas counties
At 92.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Franklin County ranks 31 of 70 — above 39 of the 69 other Kansas counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +25.4% against the cohort median of 73.6. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
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
87
Burglary
21
Larceny-Theft
57
Motor Vehicle Theft
9
Arson
0
Violent Crime
24
Murder
0
Rape
4
Robbery
2
Aggravated Assault
18
Reporting Agency
Franklin County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Franklin County's crime figures on this page originate from Franklin 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 Franklin County in population. Their populations run from 22,382 to 31,486, against 25,996 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.