County crime profile · 2024 · very large county · property-led
Jefferson County, TX
At 256,526 residents, Jefferson County is a very large county in Texas. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Jefferson County, TX reported 24 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Jefferson County, TX agencies reported 62 violent and 298 property offenses. That equals about 24 violent and 116 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
62 violent offenses
24/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Jefferson County, TX
Position in the state cohort
Jefferson County reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable Texas counties
At 24.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Jefferson County ranks 194 of 231 — above 37 of the 230 other Texas counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -69.9% against the cohort median of 80.3. 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 40.9 per 100,000 in 2021 to 24.2 in 2024 (-41.0%). The highest observed value was 40.9 in 2021 and the lowest 24.2 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
On a very 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 · very large county
Category
Count
Property Crime
298
Burglary
103
Larceny-Theft
158
Motor Vehicle Theft
37
Arson
2
Violent Crime
62
Murder
0
Rape
11
Robbery
5
Aggravated Assault
46
Reporting Agency
Jefferson County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
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.
Similar-Size Counties in Texas
A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the Texas counties closest to Jefferson County in population. Their populations run from 233,479 to 267,114, against 256,526 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.