County crime profile · 2024 · small-population county · property-led
McPherson County is a small-population county in South Dakota. Reported FBI UCR offense counts are shown first; per-100,000 rates require a matched Census denominator.
Data updated 2026-08-24
McPherson County, SD reported 0 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, McPherson County, SD agencies reported 0 violent and 14 property offenses. That equals about 0 violent and 581 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
McPherson County reported 0 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 2,411. 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 0.0% of the 14 Part I offenses reported in McPherson County for 2024, against a median of 27.5% across comparable South Dakota counties — a gap of 27.5 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 0.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, McPherson County ranks 37 of 41 — above 0 of the 40 other South Dakota counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -100.0% against the cohort median of 43.2. 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 78.6% of reported property offenses in McPherson County, against a cohort median of 60.0%. The remainder is burglary (3) and motor vehicle theft (0). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
On a small-population county row, small denominators make rates swing on a handful of incidents. Figures are what agencies reported, not a neighbourhood safety grade. Census-matched rates appear only when the join exists.
| Category | Count |
|---|---|
| Property Crime | 14 |
| Burglary | 3 |
| Larceny-Theft | 11 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 |
| Arson | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 0 |
| Murder | 0 |
| Rape | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 |
| Aggravated Assault | 0 |
McPherson County's crime figures on this page originate from McPherson 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 South Dakota counties closest to McPherson County in population. Their populations run from 2,125 to 2,835, against 2,411 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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