County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
At 62,784 residents, Union 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
Union County, OH reported 89 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Union County, OH agencies reported 56 violent and 152 property offenses. That equals about 89 violent and 242 property crimes per 100,000 using a verified Census population join. Table 10 coverage is a voluntary subset of U.S. counties.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 49.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 89.2 in 2024 (+80.6%). The highest observed value was 89.2 in 2024 and the lowest 38.2 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
At 89.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Union County ranks 12 of 66 — above 54 of the 65 other Ohio counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +104.2% against the cohort median of 43.7. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 26.9% of the 208 Part I offenses reported in Union County for 2024, against a median of 14.7% across comparable Ohio counties — a gap of 12.2 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 80.9% of reported property offenses in Union County, against a cohort median of 71.6%. The remainder is burglary (17) and motor vehicle theft (12). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
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.
| Category | Count |
|---|---|
| Property Crime | 152 |
| Burglary | 17 |
| Larceny-Theft | 123 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 12 |
| Arson | 1 |
| Violent Crime | 56 |
| Murder | 0 |
| Rape | 15 |
| Robbery | 1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 40 |
Union County's crime figures on this page originate from Union 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 Ohio counties closest to Union County in population. Their populations run from 58,539 to 66,497, against 62,784 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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