County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
Scott County, IA
At 174,669 residents, Scott County is a large county in Iowa. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Scott County, IA reported 17 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Scott County, IA agencies reported 30 violent and 154 property offenses. That equals about 17 violent and 88 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
30 violent offenses
17/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Scott County, IA
Position in the state cohort
Scott County reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable Iowa counties
At 17.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Scott County ranks 70 of 86 — above 16 of the 85 other Iowa counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -62.9% against the cohort median of 46.3. 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
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 79.2% of reported property offenses in Scott County, against a cohort median of 56.6%. The remainder is burglary (12) and motor vehicle theft (20). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 16.3% of the 184 Part I offenses reported in Scott County for 2024, against a median of 24.5% across comparable Iowa counties — a gap of 8.2 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 higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 16.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 17.2 in 2024 (+7.1%). The highest observed value was 26.3 in 2022 and the lowest 16.0 in 2020. 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
154
Burglary
12
Larceny-Theft
122
Motor Vehicle Theft
20
Arson
1
Violent Crime
30
Murder
1
Rape
1
Robbery
0
Aggravated Assault
28
Reporting Agency
Scott County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Scott County's crime figures on this page originate from Scott 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 Iowa
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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.
County Table 10 totals are voluntary agency filings: incomplete coverage is not a county crime measure, and a countywide figure is not a neighbourhood verdict.