County crime profile · 2024 · very large county · property-led
Onondaga County, NY
At 476,516 residents, Onondaga County is a very large county in New York. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Onondaga County, NY reported 44 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Onondaga County, NY agencies reported 209 violent and 1,188 property offenses. That equals about 44 violent and 249 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
209 violent offenses
44/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Onondaga County, NY
Position in the state cohort
Onondaga County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable New York counties
At 43.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Onondaga County ranks 5 of 39 — above 34 of the 38 other New York counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +75.4% against the cohort median of 25.0. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 70.5% of reported property offenses in Onondaga County, against a cohort median of 81.9%. The remainder is burglary (189) and motor vehicle theft (161). 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 15.0% of the 1,397 Part I offenses reported in Onondaga County for 2024, against a median of 11.1% across comparable New York counties — a gap of 3.8 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 46.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 43.9 in 2024 (-4.6%). The highest observed value was 46.0 in 2020 and the lowest 41.6 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
On a very 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.
Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · very large county
Category
Count
Property Crime
1,188
Burglary
189
Larceny-Theft
838
Motor Vehicle Theft
161
Arson
1
Violent Crime
209
Murder
3
Rape
34
Robbery
26
Aggravated Assault
146
Reporting Agency
Onondaga County Sheriff's Office Summary Reporting (SRS)
Onondaga County's crime figures on this page originate from Onondaga 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 New York
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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.