County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
Letcher County (21,548 people) sits in the mid-size county band in Kentucky. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.
Data updated 2026-07-13
Letcher County, KY reported 5 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Letcher County, KY agencies reported 1 violent and 9 property offenses. That equals about 5 violent and 42 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
Letcher County reported 1 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 21,548. 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 4.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Letcher County ranks 101 of 113 — above 12 of the 112 other Kentucky counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -82.2% against the cohort median of 26.1. 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 are 10.0% of the 10 Part I offenses reported in Letcher County for 2024, against a median of 14.3% across comparable Kentucky counties — a gap of 4.3 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.
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 | 9 |
| Burglary | 2 |
| Larceny-Theft | 5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 2 |
| Arson | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 1 |
| Murder | 0 |
| Rape | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 |
| Aggravated Assault | 1 |
Letcher County's crime figures on this page originate from Letcher 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 Kentucky counties closest to Letcher County in population. Their populations run from 20,345 to 22,680, against 21,548 here. Or launch the side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two jurisdictions directly.
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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Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 10 county crime · 2024 Letcher County, KY figures cover participating agencies only.
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