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

Frederick County, VA

At 91,419 residents, Frederick County is a large county in Virginia. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).

Data updated 2026-09-05

883
Property offenses
70
Violent offenses
953
Total · 2024

Frederick County, VA reported 77 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024

According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Frederick County, VA agencies reported 70 violent and 883 property offenses. That equals about 77 violent and 966 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
  • 70 violent offenses
  • 77/100K violent rate

What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Frederick County, VA

Position in the state cohort

Frederick County reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable Virginia counties

At 76.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Frederick County ranks 77 of 94 — above 17 of the 93 other Virginia counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -40.2% against the cohort median of 128.0. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.

Offense mix

The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort

Violent offenses are 7.3% of the 953 Part I offenses reported in Frederick County for 2024, against a median of 16.9% across comparable Virginia counties — a gap of 9.5 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 87.0% of reported property offenses in Frederick County, against a cohort median of 78.2%. The remainder is burglary (54) and motor vehicle theft (61). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.

2020–2024 direction

The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower

Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 79.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 76.6 in 2024 (-4.1%). The highest observed value was 79.9 in 2020 and the lowest 47.0 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.

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 883
Burglary 54
Larceny-Theft 768
Motor Vehicle Theft 61
Arson 1
Violent Crime 70
Murder 1
Rape 23
Robbery 3
Aggravated Assault 43

Reporting Agency

Frederick County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating

Frederick County's crime figures on this page originate from Frederick 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 Virginia

A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the Virginia counties closest to Frederick County in population. Their populations run from 78,254 to 99,721, against 91,419 here. Or launch the side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two jurisdictions directly.

Nationwide peers for Frederick County

Similar violent rate (~77/100K)

Similar property rate (~966/100K)

ZIP Codes in Frederick County

State atlas: Virginia · Compare · Rankings

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.

Put this to use

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