County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led

Seneca County, OH

At 55,069 residents, Seneca County is a large county in Ohio. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).

Data updated 2026-09-05

124
Property offenses
14
Violent offenses
138
Total · 2024

Seneca County, OH reported 25 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024

According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Seneca County, OH agencies reported 14 violent and 124 property offenses. That equals about 25 violent and 225 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
  • 14 violent offenses
  • 25/100K violent rate

What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Seneca County, OH

Small-count caution

The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable

Seneca County reported 14 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 55,069. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.

2021–2024 direction

The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher

Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 14.5 per 100,000 in 2021 to 25.4 in 2024 (+75.0%). The highest observed value was 32.7 in 2022 and the lowest 14.5 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.

Position in the state cohort

Seneca County reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable Ohio counties

At 25.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Seneca County ranks 50 of 66 — above 16 of the 65 other Ohio counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -43.3% against the cohort median of 44.8. 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 83.9% of reported property offenses in Seneca County, against a cohort median of 71.6%. The remainder is burglary (15) and motor vehicle theft (5). 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 10.1% of the 138 Part I offenses reported in Seneca County for 2024, against a median of 15.0% across comparable Ohio counties — a gap of 4.8 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.

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 124
Burglary 15
Larceny-Theft 104
Motor Vehicle Theft 5
Arson 1
Violent Crime 14
Murder 1
Rape 10
Robbery 0
Aggravated Assault 3

Reporting Agency

Seneca County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating

Seneca County's crime figures on this page originate from Seneca 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 Ohio

A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the Ohio counties closest to Seneca County in population. Their populations run from 48,230 to 59,771, against 55,069 here. Or launch the side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two jurisdictions directly.

Nationwide peers for Seneca County

Similar violent rate (~25/100K)

Similar property rate (~225/100K)

ZIP Codes in Seneca County

State atlas: Ohio · Compare · Rankings

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.

Put this to use

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