County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
Roanoke County, VA
At 96,929 residents, Roanoke County is a large county in Virginia. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Roanoke County, VA reported 191 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Roanoke County, VA agencies reported 185 violent and 989 property offenses. That equals about 191 violent and 1020 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
185 violent offenses
191/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Roanoke County, VA
Position in the state cohort
Roanoke County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Virginia counties
At 190.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Roanoke County ranks 18 of 94 — above 76 of the 93 other Virginia counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +50.0% against the cohort median of 127.2. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 87.1% of reported property offenses in Roanoke County, against a cohort median of 78.2%. The remainder is burglary (72) and motor vehicle theft (56). 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
989
Burglary
72
Larceny-Theft
861
Motor Vehicle Theft
56
Arson
2
Violent Crime
185
Murder
3
Rape
35
Robbery
9
Aggravated Assault
138
Reporting Agency
Roanoke County Police Department NIBRS-participating
Roanoke County's crime figures on this page originate from Roanoke County Police Department'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 Virginia
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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.