County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
Hardee County, FL
Hardee County (25,327 people) sits in the mid-size county band in Florida. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.
Hardee County, FL reported 201 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Hardee County, FL agencies reported 51 violent and 177 property offenses. That equals about 201 violent and 699 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
51 violent offenses
201/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Hardee County, FL
Position in the state cohort
Hardee County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Florida counties
At 201.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Hardee County ranks 10 of 37 — above 27 of the 36 other Florida counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +30.8% against the cohort median of 153.9. 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 lower
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 292.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 201.4 in 2024 (-31.1%). The highest observed value was 292.2 in 2020 and the lowest 134.2 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
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
177
Burglary
32
Larceny-Theft
138
Motor Vehicle Theft
7
Arson
0
Violent Crime
51
Murder
0
Rape
8
Robbery
2
Aggravated Assault
41
Reporting Agency
Hardee County Sheriff's Office Summary Reporting (SRS)
Hardee County's crime figures on this page originate from Hardee County Sheriff's Office's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
This agency reports via the traditional Summary Reporting System (SRS): aggregate monthly offense counts rather than incident-level detail.
Similar-Size Counties in Florida
A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the Florida counties closest to Hardee County in population. Their populations run from 17,968 to 33,764, against 25,327 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.