County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
Sheridan County (30,921 people) sits in the mid-size county band in Wyoming. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Sheridan County, WY reported 32 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Sheridan County, WY agencies reported 10 violent and 19 property offenses. That equals about 32 violent and 61 property crimes per 100,000 using a verified Census population join. Table 10 coverage is a voluntary subset of U.S. counties.
Small-count caution
Sheridan County reported 10 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 30,921. 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 34.5% of the 29 Part I offenses reported in Sheridan County for 2024, against a median of 15.3% across comparable Wyoming counties — a gap of 19.2 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 32.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Sheridan County ranks 10 of 19 — above 9 of the 18 other Wyoming counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -0.5% against the cohort median of 32.5. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 32.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 32.3 in 2024 (+0.0%). The highest observed value was 45.3 in 2021 and the lowest 9.7 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.
| Category | Count |
|---|---|
| Property Crime | 19 |
| Burglary | 3 |
| Larceny-Theft | 13 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 3 |
| Arson | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 10 |
| Murder | 0 |
| Rape | 7 |
| Robbery | 0 |
| Aggravated Assault | 3 |
Sheridan County's crime figures on this page originate from Sheridan 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 Wyoming counties closest to Sheridan County in population. Their populations run from 19,581 to 37,066, against 30,921 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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Put this to use
Use the Sheridan County, WY FBI UCR county record to open cities inside the county, compare the state file, or look up another place.
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.
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