County crime profile · 2024 · small county · property-led
Mathews County is a small county (8,533 people) in Virginia. FBI Table 10 county totals lead; rates appear only with a verified Census population join.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Mathews County, VA reported 106 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Mathews County, VA agencies reported 9 violent and 65 property offenses. That equals about 106 violent and 762 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
Mathews County reported 9 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 8,533. 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 70.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 105.5 in 2024 (+50.0%). The highest observed value was 140.6 in 2022 and the lowest 23.4 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 105.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Mathews County ranks 64 of 94 — above 30 of the 93 other Virginia counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -17.6% against the cohort median of 128.0. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 66.2% of reported property offenses in Mathews County, against a cohort median of 78.2%. The remainder is burglary (10) and motor vehicle theft (12). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 12.2% of the 74 Part I offenses reported in Mathews County for 2024, against a median of 16.9% across comparable Virginia counties — a gap of 4.7 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.
Small-county UCR rows are especially sensitive to which agencies filed. Per-100,000 rates use a matched 2020 Census population when available; otherwise counts only. Do not treat the county total as a town-level crime level.
| Category | Count |
|---|---|
| Property Crime | 65 |
| Burglary | 10 |
| Larceny-Theft | 43 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 12 |
| Arson | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 9 |
| Murder | 1 |
| Rape | 1 |
| Robbery | 0 |
| Aggravated Assault | 7 |
Mathews County's crime figures on this page originate from Mathews 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 Virginia counties closest to Mathews County in population. Their populations run from 6,608 to 9,675, against 8,533 here. Or launch the side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two jurisdictions directly.
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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.
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