County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
Okeechobee County, FL
Okeechobee County (39,644 people) sits in the mid-size county band in Florida. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.
Okeechobee County, FL reported 293 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Okeechobee County, FL agencies reported 116 violent and 421 property offenses. That equals about 293 violent and 1062 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
116 violent offenses
293/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Okeechobee County, FL
Position in the state cohort
Okeechobee County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Florida counties
At 292.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Okeechobee County ranks 2 of 37 — above 35 of the 36 other Florida counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +90.1% against the cohort median of 153.9. 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 lower
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 489.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 292.6 in 2024 (-40.2%). The highest observed value was 489.4 in 2020 and the lowest 280.0 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
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
421
Burglary
81
Larceny-Theft
315
Motor Vehicle Theft
25
Arson
2
Violent Crime
116
Murder
0
Rape
14
Robbery
4
Aggravated Assault
98
Reporting Agency
Okeechobee County Sheriff's Office Summary Reporting (SRS)
Okeechobee County's crime figures on this page originate from Okeechobee County Sheriff's Office's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
This agency reports via the traditional Summary Reporting System (SRS): aggregate monthly offense counts rather than incident-level detail.
Similar-Size Counties in Florida
A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the Florida counties closest to Okeechobee County in population. Their populations run from 25,327 to 39,619, against 39,644 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.