County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
Scott County, VA
Scott County (21,576 people) sits in the mid-size county band in Virginia. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.
Scott County, VA reported 167 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Scott County, VA agencies reported 36 violent and 256 property offenses. That equals about 167 violent and 1187 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
36 violent offenses
167/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Scott County, VA
Position in the state cohort
Scott County sits mid-pack among comparable Virginia counties
At 166.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Scott County ranks 26 of 94 — above 68 of the 93 other Virginia counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +31.2% 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.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 12.3% of the 292 Part I offenses reported in Scott County for 2024, against a median of 16.9% across comparable Virginia counties — a gap of 4.5 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 171.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 166.9 in 2024 (-2.7%). The highest observed value was 222.5 in 2022 and the lowest 143.7 in 2023. 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
256
Burglary
40
Larceny-Theft
191
Motor Vehicle Theft
25
Arson
4
Violent Crime
36
Murder
2
Rape
6
Robbery
1
Aggravated Assault
27
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 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.
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.