County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
Lincoln County (24,275 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
Lincoln County, KY reported 95 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Lincoln County, KY agencies reported 23 violent and 59 property offenses. That equals about 95 violent and 243 property crimes per 100,000 using a verified Census population join. Table 10 coverage is a voluntary subset of U.S. counties.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 33.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 94.7 in 2024 (+187.5%). The highest observed value was 94.7 in 2024 and the lowest 12.4 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 94.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Lincoln County ranks 2 of 113 — above 111 of the 112 other Kentucky counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +269.9% against the cohort median of 25.6. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Small-count caution
Lincoln County reported 23 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 24,275. 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 28.0% of the 82 Part I offenses reported in Lincoln County for 2024, against a median of 14.0% across comparable Kentucky counties — a gap of 14.0 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 40.7% of reported property offenses in Lincoln County, against a cohort median of 55.6%. The remainder is burglary (22) and motor vehicle theft (13). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
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 | 59 |
| Burglary | 22 |
| Larceny-Theft | 24 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 13 |
| Arson | 1 |
| Violent Crime | 23 |
| Murder | 2 |
| Rape | 2 |
| Robbery | 1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 18 |
Lincoln County's crime figures on this page originate from Lincoln 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 Lincoln County in population. Their populations run from 23,772 to 24,941, against 24,275 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 Lincoln County, KY figures cover participating agencies only.
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