County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
At 51,591 residents, Nye County is a large county in Nevada. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Data updated 2026-07-13
Nye County, NV reported 287 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Nye County, NV agencies reported 148 violent and 606 property offenses. That equals about 287 violent and 1175 property crimes per 100,000 using a verified Census population join. Table 10 coverage is a voluntary subset of U.S. counties.
Share of the state cohort
The 754 Part I offenses reported here are 18.4% of the 4,097 reported across all 12 comparable Nevada counties in 2024. A county this large moves the statewide total on its own, so state-level changes should be read against its population of 51,591 rather than as a uniform shift.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 19.6% of the 754 Part I offenses reported in Nye County for 2024, against a median of 28.2% across comparable Nevada counties — a gap of 8.6 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 286.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Nye County ranks 5 of 12 — above 7 of the 11 other Nevada counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +86.6% against the cohort median of 153.7. 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 325.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 286.9 in 2024 (-11.9%). The highest observed value was 337.3 in 2021 and the lowest 271.4 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
On a large county row, county figures aggregate every participating agency inside the county. Participation is voluntary. Per-100,000 rates use a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census county population, never a Table 10 field; unmatched counties stay count-only. A large county line encloses very different communities.
| Category | Count |
|---|---|
| Property Crime | 606 |
| Burglary | 178 |
| Larceny-Theft | 352 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 76 |
| Arson | 12 |
| Violent Crime | 148 |
| Murder | 1 |
| Rape | 17 |
| Robbery | 8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 122 |
Nye County's crime figures on this page originate from Nye 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 Nevada counties closest to Nye County in population. Their populations run from 25,516 to 59,235, against 51,591 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 Nye County, NV figures cover participating agencies only.
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