County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
Hernando County, FL
At 194,515 residents, Hernando County is a large county in Florida. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Hernando County, FL reported 218 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Hernando County, FL agencies reported 424 violent and 2,109 property offenses. That equals about 218 violent and 1084 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
424 violent offenses
218/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Hernando County, FL
Position in the state cohort
Hernando County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Florida counties
At 218.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Hernando County ranks 8 of 37 — above 29 of the 36 other Florida counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +41.6% 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.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 16.7% of the 2,533 Part I offenses reported in Hernando County for 2024, against a median of 20.8% across comparable Florida counties — a gap of 4.1 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 226.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 218.0 in 2024 (-3.6%). The highest observed value was 230.8 in 2022 and the lowest 218.0 in 2024. 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
2,109
Burglary
291
Larceny-Theft
1,692
Motor Vehicle Theft
126
Arson
12
Violent Crime
424
Murder
11
Rape
38
Robbery
38
Aggravated Assault
337
Reporting Agency
Hernando County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Hernando County's crime figures on this page originate from Hernando 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 Florida
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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.