County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
Jefferson County (37,113 people) sits in the mid-size county band in Illinois. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Jefferson County, IL reported 40 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Jefferson County, IL agencies reported 15 violent and 117 property offenses. That equals about 40 violent and 315 property crimes per 100,000 using a verified Census population join. Table 10 coverage is a voluntary subset of U.S. counties.
Small-count caution
Jefferson County reported 15 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 37,113. 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 74.4% of reported property offenses in Jefferson County, against a cohort median of 51.7%. The remainder is burglary (23) and motor vehicle theft (7). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 11.4% of the 132 Part I offenses reported in Jefferson County for 2024, against a median of 20.3% across comparable Illinois counties — a gap of 8.9 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 40.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Jefferson County ranks 34 of 77 — above 43 of the 76 other Illinois counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +8.4% 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.
2022–2024 direction
Across 3 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 43.1 per 100,000 in 2022 to 40.4 in 2024 (-6.2%). The highest observed value was 67.4 in 2023 and the lowest 40.4 in 2024. 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.
| Category | Count |
|---|---|
| Property Crime | 117 |
| Burglary | 23 |
| Larceny-Theft | 87 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 7 |
| Arson | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 15 |
| Murder | 0 |
| Rape | 5 |
| Robbery | 0 |
| Aggravated Assault | 10 |
Jefferson County's crime figures on this page originate from Jefferson 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.
A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the Illinois counties closest to Jefferson County in population. Their populations run from 34,962 to 37,804, against 37,113 here. Or launch the side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two jurisdictions directly.
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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.
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