County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
Knox County, IL
Knox County (49,967 people) sits in the mid-size county band in Illinois. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.
Knox County, IL reported 74 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Knox County, IL agencies reported 37 violent and 146 property offenses. That equals about 74 violent and 292 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
37 violent offenses
74/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Knox County, IL
Position in the state cohort
Knox County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Illinois counties
At 74.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Knox County ranks 10 of 77 — above 67 of the 76 other Illinois counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +98.6% 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.
2024 reported record
Larceny-theft is the most reported offence in Knox County
Of the 183 Part I offences Knox County reported for 2024, 20.2% were violent. Aggravated assault leads the violent categories at 24, and larceny-theft leads the property categories at 81, against a population of 49,967. Illinois has too few counties with a comparable 2024 submission to place this record against an in-state cohort, so it is reported on its own terms.
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.
Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · mid-size county
Category
Count
Property Crime
146
Burglary
56
Larceny-Theft
81
Motor Vehicle Theft
9
Arson
0
Violent Crime
37
Murder
0
Rape
13
Robbery
0
Aggravated Assault
24
Reporting Agency
Knox County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Knox County's crime figures on this page originate from Knox 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
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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.