County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
Hanover County, VA
At 109,979 residents, Hanover County is a large county in Virginia. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Hanover County, VA reported 168 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Hanover County, VA agencies reported 185 violent and 824 property offenses. That equals about 168 violent and 749 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
185 violent offenses
168/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Hanover County, VA
Position in the state cohort
Hanover County sits mid-pack among comparable Virginia counties
At 168.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Hanover County ranks 25 of 94 — above 69 of the 93 other Virginia counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +32.2% against the cohort median of 127.2. 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 91.9% of reported property offenses in Hanover County, against a cohort median of 78.2%. The remainder is burglary (38) and motor vehicle theft (29). 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 higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 158.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 168.2 in 2024 (+6.3%). The highest observed value was 180.9 in 2023 and the lowest 158.2 in 2020. 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
824
Burglary
38
Larceny-Theft
757
Motor Vehicle Theft
29
Arson
4
Violent Crime
185
Murder
1
Rape
15
Robbery
4
Aggravated Assault
165
Reporting Agency
Hanover County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Hanover County's crime figures on this page originate from Hanover 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
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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.