County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
Stafford County, VA
At 156,927 residents, Stafford County is a large county in Virginia. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Stafford County, VA reported 239 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Stafford County, VA agencies reported 375 violent and 1,275 property offenses. That equals about 239 violent and 813 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
375 violent offenses
239/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Stafford County, VA
Position in the state cohort
Stafford County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Virginia counties
At 239.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Stafford County ranks 7 of 94 — above 87 of the 93 other Virginia counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +87.8% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 195.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 239.0 in 2024 (+22.1%). The highest observed value was 239.0 in 2024 and the lowest 195.6 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 22.7% of the 1,650 Part I offenses reported in Stafford County for 2024, against a median of 16.6% across comparable Virginia counties — a gap of 6.1 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
1,275
Burglary
99
Larceny-Theft
1,084
Motor Vehicle Theft
92
Arson
9
Violent Crime
375
Murder
1
Rape
61
Robbery
29
Aggravated Assault
284
Reporting Agency
Stafford County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Stafford County's crime figures on this page originate from Stafford 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.