County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · violent-led
Scotts Bluff County (36,084 people) sits in the mid-size county band in Nebraska. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Scotts Bluff County, NE reported 133 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Scotts Bluff County, NE agencies reported 48 violent and 35 property offenses. That equals about 133 violent and 97 property crimes per 100,000 using a verified Census population join. Table 10 coverage is a voluntary subset of U.S. counties.
2021–2024 direction
Across 3 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 22.2 per 100,000 in 2021 to 133.0 in 2024 (+500.0%). The highest observed value was 133.0 in 2024 and the lowest 22.2 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 57.8% of the 83 Part I offenses reported in Scotts Bluff County for 2024, against a median of 18.9% across comparable Nebraska counties — a gap of 39.0 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 133.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Scotts Bluff County ranks 4 of 47 — above 43 of the 46 other Nebraska counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +237.1% against the cohort median of 39.5. 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 is 74.3% of reported property offenses in Scotts Bluff County, against a cohort median of 65.8%. The remainder is burglary (3) and motor vehicle theft (6). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
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.
| Category | Count |
|---|---|
| Violent Crime | 48 |
| Murder | 0 |
| Rape | 1 |
| Robbery | 1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 46 |
| Property Crime | 35 |
| Burglary | 3 |
| Larceny-Theft | 26 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 6 |
| Arson | 0 |
Scotts Bluff County's crime figures on this page originate from Scotts Bluff 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.
A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the Nebraska counties closest to Scotts Bluff County in population. Their populations run from 31,205 to 37,167, against 36,084 here. Or launch the side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two jurisdictions directly.
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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.
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