County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
At 116,721 residents, Jefferson County is a large county in New York. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Data updated 2026-08-24
Jefferson County, NY reported 15 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Jefferson County, NY agencies reported 17 violent and 131 property offenses. That equals about 15 violent and 112 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 17 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 116,721. 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 14.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Jefferson County ranks 35 of 39 — above 4 of the 38 other New York counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -45.2% against the cohort median of 26.6. 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
Across 3 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 10.3 per 100,000 in 2021 to 14.6 in 2024 (+41.7%). The highest observed value was 14.6 in 2024 and the lowest 10.3 in 2021. 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.
| Category | Count |
|---|---|
| Property Crime | 131 |
| Burglary | 14 |
| Larceny-Theft | 114 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 3 |
| Arson | 1 |
| Violent Crime | 17 |
| Murder | 0 |
| Rape | 6 |
| Robbery | 0 |
| Aggravated Assault | 11 |
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 New York counties closest to Jefferson County in population. Their populations run from 105,740 to 127,657, against 116,721 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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