County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
Raleigh County, WV
At 74,591 residents, Raleigh 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).
Raleigh County, WV reported 170 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Raleigh County, WV agencies reported 127 violent and 580 property offenses. That equals about 170 violent and 778 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
127 violent offenses
170/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Raleigh County, WV
Position in the state cohort
Raleigh County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable West Virginia counties
At 170.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Raleigh County ranks 5 of 32 — above 27 of the 31 other West Virginia counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +170.8% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window close to where it started
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 168.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 170.3 in 2024 (+0.8%). The highest observed value was 170.3 in 2024 and the lowest 108.6 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
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
580
Burglary
151
Larceny-Theft
393
Motor Vehicle Theft
36
Arson
6
Violent Crime
127
Murder
3
Rape
25
Robbery
3
Aggravated Assault
96
Reporting Agency
Raleigh County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Raleigh County's crime figures on this page originate from Raleigh 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 West Virginia
A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the West Virginia counties closest to Raleigh County in population. Their populations run from 57,440 to 84,296, against 74,591 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.