County crime profile · 2024 · small county · property-led
Mercer County is a small county (8,350 people) in North Dakota. FBI Table 10 county totals lead; rates appear only with a verified Census population join.
Data updated 2026-07-13
Mercer County, ND reported 24 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Mercer County, ND agencies reported 2 violent and 14 property offenses. That equals about 24 violent and 168 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
Mercer County reported 2 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 8,350. 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 24.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Mercer County ranks 18 of 30 — above 12 of the 29 other North Dakota counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -31.7% against the cohort median of 35.1. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 24.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 24.0 in 2024 (+0.0%). The highest observed value was 59.9 in 2021 and the lowest 12.0 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
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 | 14 |
| Burglary | 3 |
| Larceny-Theft | 9 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 2 |
| Arson | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 2 |
| Murder | 0 |
| Rape | 1 |
| Robbery | 1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 0 |
Mercer County's crime figures on this page originate from Mercer 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 North Dakota counties closest to Mercer County in population. Their populations run from 6,379 to 9,809, against 8,350 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 Mercer County, ND figures cover participating agencies only.
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