County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
Jackson County, IL
At 52,974 residents, Jackson County is a large county in Illinois. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Jackson County, IL reported 74 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Jackson County, IL agencies reported 39 violent and 198 property offenses. That equals about 74 violent and 374 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
39 violent offenses
74/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Jackson County, IL
Position in the state cohort
Jackson County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Illinois counties
At 73.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Jackson County ranks 11 of 77 — above 66 of the 76 other Illinois counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +97.5% against the cohort median of 37.3. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
2021–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 103.8 per 100,000 in 2021 to 73.6 in 2024 (-29.1%). The highest observed value was 103.8 in 2021 and the lowest 30.2 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 16.5% of the 237 Part I offenses reported in Jackson County for 2024, against a median of 20.3% across comparable Illinois counties — a gap of 3.8 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.
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
198
Burglary
62
Larceny-Theft
114
Motor Vehicle Theft
22
Arson
1
Violent Crime
39
Murder
1
Rape
5
Robbery
2
Aggravated Assault
31
Reporting Agency
Jackson County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Jackson County's crime figures on this page originate from Jackson 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 Illinois
A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the Illinois counties closest to Jackson County in population. Their populations run from 49,967 to 55,691, against 52,974 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.