County crime profile · 2024 · very large county · property-led
At 725,046 residents, Polk County is a very large county in Florida. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Data updated 2026-08-24
Polk County, FL reported 176 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Polk County, FL agencies reported 1,276 violent and 3,095 property offenses. That equals about 176 violent and 427 property crimes per 100,000 using a verified Census population join. Table 10 coverage is a voluntary subset of U.S. counties.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 29.2% of the 4,371 Part I offenses reported in Polk County for 2024, against a median of 20.7% across comparable Florida counties — a gap of 8.5 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 176.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Polk County ranks 14 of 37 — above 23 of the 36 other Florida counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +14.3% 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
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 183.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 176.0 in 2024 (-3.8%). The highest observed value was 197.2 in 2023 and the lowest 176.0 in 2024. 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.
| Category | Count |
|---|---|
| Property Crime | 3,095 |
| Burglary | 546 |
| Larceny-Theft | 2,215 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 334 |
| Arson | 6 |
| Violent Crime | 1,276 |
| Murder | 8 |
| Rape | 69 |
| Robbery | 106 |
| Aggravated Assault | 1,093 |
Polk County's crime figures on this page originate from Polk 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.
A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the Florida counties closest to Polk County in population. Their populations run from 470,856 to 995,567, against 725,046 here. Or launch the side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two jurisdictions directly.
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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.
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