County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
Sangamon County, IL
At 196,343 residents, Sangamon County is a large county in Illinois. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Sangamon County, IL reported 80 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Sangamon County, IL agencies reported 156 violent and 720 property offenses. That equals about 80 violent and 367 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
156 violent offenses
80/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Sangamon County, IL
Position in the state cohort
Sangamon County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Illinois counties
At 79.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Sangamon County ranks 7 of 77 — above 70 of the 76 other Illinois counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +113.1% against the cohort median of 37.3. 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
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 43.2% of reported property offenses in Sangamon County, against a cohort median of 53.3%. The remainder is burglary (334) and motor vehicle theft (75). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2021–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window close to where it started
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 80.0 per 100,000 in 2021 to 79.5 in 2024 (-0.6%). The highest observed value was 101.9 in 2022 and the lowest 79.5 in 2024. 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
720
Burglary
334
Larceny-Theft
311
Motor Vehicle Theft
75
Arson
9
Violent Crime
156
Murder
3
Rape
31
Robbery
11
Aggravated Assault
111
Reporting Agency
Sangamon County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Sangamon County's crime figures on this page originate from Sangamon 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 Illinois
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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.