County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
Putnam County, FL
At 73,321 residents, Putnam County is a large county in Florida. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Putnam County, FL reported 56 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Putnam County, FL agencies reported 41 violent and 355 property offenses. That equals about 56 violent and 484 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
41 violent offenses
56/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Putnam County, FL
Position in the state cohort
Putnam County reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable Florida counties
At 55.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Putnam County ranks 36 of 37 — above 1 of the 36 other Florida counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -64.4% against the cohort median of 156.9. 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 121.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 55.9 in 2024 (-53.9%). The highest observed value was 121.4 in 2020 and the lowest 55.9 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 10.4% of the 396 Part I offenses reported in Putnam County for 2024, against a median of 20.8% across comparable Florida counties — a gap of 10.5 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.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 68.5% of reported property offenses in Putnam County, against a cohort median of 77.2%. The remainder is burglary (72) and motor vehicle theft (40). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
On a 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 · large county
Category
Count
Property Crime
355
Burglary
72
Larceny-Theft
243
Motor Vehicle Theft
40
Arson
1
Violent Crime
41
Murder
0
Rape
14
Robbery
5
Aggravated Assault
22
Reporting Agency
Putnam County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Putnam County's crime figures on this page originate from Putnam 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 Florida
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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.