County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
Lancaster County, VA
Lancaster County (10,919 people) sits in the mid-size county band in Virginia. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.
Lancaster County, VA reported 321 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Lancaster County, VA agencies reported 35 violent and 51 property offenses. That equals about 321 violent and 467 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
35 violent offenses
321/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Lancaster County, VA
Position in the state cohort
Lancaster County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Virginia counties
At 320.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Lancaster County ranks 2 of 94 — above 92 of the 93 other Virginia counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +152.0% against the cohort median of 127.2. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 40.7% of the 86 Part I offenses reported in Lancaster County for 2024, against a median of 16.6% across comparable Virginia counties — a gap of 24.1 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 366.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 320.5 in 2024 (-12.5%). The highest observed value was 366.3 in 2020 and the lowest 155.7 in 2022. 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.
Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · mid-size county
Category
Count
Property Crime
51
Burglary
8
Larceny-Theft
38
Motor Vehicle Theft
5
Arson
0
Violent Crime
35
Murder
0
Rape
5
Robbery
0
Aggravated Assault
30
Reporting Agency
Lancaster County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Lancaster County's crime figures on this page originate from Lancaster 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 Virginia
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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.
County Table 10 totals are voluntary agency filings: incomplete coverage is not a county crime measure, and a countywide figure is not a neighbourhood verdict.