County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
Randolph County, WV
Randolph County (27,932 people) sits in the mid-size county band in West Virginia. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.
Randolph County, WV reported 243 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Randolph County, WV agencies reported 68 violent and 145 property offenses. That equals about 243 violent and 519 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
68 violent offenses
243/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Randolph County, WV
Position in the state cohort
Randolph County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable West Virginia counties
At 243.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Randolph County ranks 2 of 32 — above 30 of the 31 other West Virginia counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +287.2% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 31.9% of the 213 Part I offenses reported in Randolph County for 2024, against a median of 18.7% across comparable West Virginia counties — a gap of 13.2 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 329.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 243.4 in 2024 (-26.1%). The highest observed value was 329.4 in 2020 and the lowest 186.2 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
145
Burglary
31
Larceny-Theft
110
Motor Vehicle Theft
4
Arson
1
Violent Crime
68
Murder
0
Rape
1
Robbery
0
Aggravated Assault
67
Reporting Agency
Randolph County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Randolph County's crime figures on this page originate from Randolph 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 Randolph County in population. Their populations run from 24,604 to 30,591, against 27,932 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.