County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
New Kent County, VA
New Kent County (22,945 people) sits in the mid-size county band in Virginia. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.
New Kent County, VA reported 192 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, New Kent County, VA agencies reported 44 violent and 155 property offenses. That equals about 192 violent and 676 property crimes per 100,000 using a verified Census population join. Table 10 coverage is a voluntary subset of U.S. counties.
2024 UCR year
44 violent offenses
192/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for New Kent County, VA
Position in the state cohort
New Kent County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Virginia counties
At 191.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, New Kent County ranks 16 of 94 — above 78 of the 93 other Virginia counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +50.7% against the cohort median of 127.2. 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
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 139.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 191.8 in 2024 (+37.5%). The highest observed value was 209.2 in 2022 and the lowest 139.5 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 92.9% of reported property offenses in New Kent County, against a cohort median of 78.2%. The remainder is burglary (5) and motor vehicle theft (6). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 22.1% of the 199 Part I offenses reported in New Kent County for 2024, against a median of 16.6% across comparable Virginia counties — a gap of 5.5 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.
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.
Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · mid-size county
Category
Count
Property Crime
155
Burglary
5
Larceny-Theft
144
Motor Vehicle Theft
6
Arson
0
Violent Crime
44
Murder
0
Rape
1
Robbery
0
Aggravated Assault
43
Reporting Agency
New Kent County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
New Kent County's crime figures on this page originate from New Kent 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.
Similar-Size Counties in Virginia
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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.
County Table 10 totals are voluntary agency filings: incomplete coverage is not a county crime measure, and a countywide figure is not a neighbourhood verdict.