County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
At 57,440 residents, Putnam County is a large county in West Virginia. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Data updated 2026-08-24
Putnam County, WV reported 64 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Putnam County, WV agencies reported 37 violent and 213 property offenses. That equals about 64 violent and 371 property crimes per 100,000 using a verified Census population join. Table 10 coverage is a voluntary subset of U.S. counties.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 84.0% of reported property offenses in Putnam County, against a cohort median of 68.6%. The remainder is burglary (20) and motor vehicle theft (14). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 14.8% of the 250 Part I offenses reported in Putnam County for 2024, against a median of 19.6% across comparable West Virginia counties — a gap of 4.8 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 64.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Putnam County ranks 16 of 32 — above 16 of the 31 other West Virginia counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +2.5% against the cohort median of 62.9. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
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.
| Category | Count |
|---|---|
| Property Crime | 213 |
| Burglary | 20 |
| Larceny-Theft | 179 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 14 |
| Arson | 2 |
| Violent Crime | 37 |
| Murder | 0 |
| Rape | 12 |
| Robbery | 0 |
| Aggravated Assault | 25 |
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.
A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the West Virginia counties closest to Putnam County in population. Their populations run from 42,425 to 65,921, against 57,440 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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