County crime profile · 2024 · very large county · property-led
Sarasota County, FL
At 434,006 residents, Sarasota County is a very large county in Florida. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Sarasota County, FL reported 80 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Sarasota County, FL agencies reported 349 violent and 2,962 property offenses. That equals about 80 violent and 683 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
349 violent offenses
80/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Sarasota County, FL
Position in the state cohort
Sarasota County reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable Florida counties
At 80.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Sarasota County ranks 32 of 37 — above 5 of the 36 other Florida counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -48.7% against the cohort median of 156.9. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 10.5% of the 3,311 Part I offenses reported in Sarasota County for 2024, against a median of 20.8% across comparable Florida counties — a gap of 10.3 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 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 112.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 80.4 in 2024 (-28.6%). The highest observed value was 112.7 in 2020 and the lowest 80.4 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
On a very 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 · very large county
Category
Count
Property Crime
2,962
Burglary
415
Larceny-Theft
2,281
Motor Vehicle Theft
266
Arson
5
Violent Crime
349
Murder
9
Rape
29
Robbery
34
Aggravated Assault
277
Reporting Agency
Sarasota County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Sarasota County's crime figures on this page originate from Sarasota 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 Florida
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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.