County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
Grant County, KY
Grant County (24,941 people) sits in the mid-size county band in Kentucky. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.
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Data updated 2026-07-13
76
Property offenses
16
Violent offenses
92
Total · 2024
Grant County, KY reported 64 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Grant County, KY agencies reported 16 violent and 76 property offenses. That equals about 64 violent and 305 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
16 violent offenses
64/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Grant County, KY
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 20.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 64.2 in 2024 (+220.0%). The highest observed value was 64.2 in 2024 and the lowest 20.0 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Small-count caution
The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable
Grant County reported 16 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 24,941. 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
Grant County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Kentucky counties
At 64.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Grant County ranks 14 of 113 — above 99 of the 112 other Kentucky counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +150.5% against the cohort median of 25.6. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 72.4% of reported property offenses in Grant County, against a cohort median of 55.6%. The remainder is burglary (11) and motor vehicle theft (10). 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 17.4% of the 92 Part I offenses reported in Grant County for 2024, against a median of 14.0% across comparable Kentucky counties — a gap of 3.3 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.
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.
Property Crime
76
Violent Crime
16
Data Year
2024
Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · mid-size county
Category
Count
Property Crime
76
Burglary
11
Larceny-Theft
55
Motor Vehicle Theft
10
Arson
0
Violent Crime
16
Murder
0
Rape
4
Robbery
1
Aggravated Assault
11
Reporting Agency
Grant County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Grant County's crime figures on this page originate from Grant 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the crime rate in Grant County, KY?▼
In 2024, Grant County reported 16 violent crimes and 76 property crimes. The most common violent crime was aggravated assault, and the most common property crime was larceny-theft.
Is Grant County safe?▼
Grant County reported 92 total crimes in 2024.Property crime accounts for the majority of offenses. Compare with other counties in Kentucky on our state page for context.
Similar-Size Counties in Kentucky
A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the Kentucky counties closest to Grant County in population. Their populations run from 23,852 to 26,023, against 24,941 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.