County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
Mineral County (26,938 people) sits in the mid-size county band in West Virginia. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Mineral County, WV reported 71 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Mineral County, WV agencies reported 19 violent and 62 property offenses. That equals about 71 violent and 230 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
Mineral County reported 19 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 26,938. 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 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 52.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 70.5 in 2024 (+35.7%). The highest observed value was 70.5 in 2024 and the lowest 26.0 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 23.5% of the 81 Part I offenses reported in Mineral County for 2024, against a median of 18.7% across comparable West 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 70.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Mineral County ranks 15 of 32 — above 17 of the 31 other West Virginia counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +12.2% against the cohort median of 62.9. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
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 | 62 |
| Burglary | 12 |
| Larceny-Theft | 43 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 7 |
| Arson | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 19 |
| Murder | 1 |
| Rape | 4 |
| Robbery | 0 |
| Aggravated Assault | 14 |
Mineral County's crime figures on this page originate from Mineral 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 West Virginia counties closest to Mineral County in population. Their populations run from 23,816 to 27,932, against 26,938 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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