County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
Pottawatomie County, KS
Pottawatomie County (25,348 people) sits in the mid-size county band in Kansas. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.
Pottawatomie County, KS reported 166 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Pottawatomie County, KS agencies reported 42 violent and 84 property offenses. That equals about 166 violent and 331 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
42 violent offenses
166/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Pottawatomie County, KS
Position in the state cohort
Pottawatomie County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Kansas counties
At 165.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Pottawatomie County ranks 12 of 70 — above 58 of the 69 other Kansas counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +125.1% against the cohort median of 73.6. 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 33.3% of the 126 Part I offenses reported in Pottawatomie County for 2024, against a median of 25.0% across comparable Kansas counties — a gap of 8.3 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.
2021–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 146.0 per 100,000 in 2021 to 165.7 in 2024 (+13.5%). The highest observed value was 189.4 in 2023 and the lowest 78.9 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
84
Burglary
27
Larceny-Theft
52
Motor Vehicle Theft
5
Arson
1
Violent Crime
42
Murder
0
Rape
6
Robbery
0
Aggravated Assault
36
Reporting Agency
Pottawatomie County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Pottawatomie County's crime figures on this page originate from Pottawatomie 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 Kansas
A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the Kansas counties closest to Pottawatomie County in population. Their populations run from 20,184 to 28,934, against 25,348 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.