County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
Ohio County, WV
Ohio County (42,425 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.
Ohio County, WV reported 104 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Ohio County, WV agencies reported 44 violent and 146 property offenses. That equals about 104 violent and 344 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
104/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Ohio County, WV
Position in the state cohort
Ohio County sits mid-pack among comparable West Virginia counties
At 103.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Ohio County ranks 10 of 32 — above 22 of the 31 other West Virginia counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +65.0% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 23.2% of the 190 Part I offenses reported in Ohio County for 2024, against a median of 18.7% across comparable West Virginia counties — a gap of 4.4 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
146
Burglary
32
Larceny-Theft
110
Motor Vehicle Theft
4
Arson
0
Violent Crime
44
Murder
0
Rape
3
Robbery
1
Aggravated Assault
40
Reporting Agency
Ohio County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Ohio County's crime figures on this page originate from Ohio 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 West Virginia
A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the West Virginia counties closest to Ohio County in population. Their populations run from 30,591 to 56,205, against 42,425 here. Or launch the
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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.