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

Walworth County, SD

Walworth County is a small county (5,315 people) in South Dakota. FBI Table 10 county totals lead; rates appear only with a verified Census population join.

Data updated 2026-08-24

3
Property offenses
0
Violent offenses
3
Total · 2024

Walworth County, SD reported 0 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024

According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Walworth County, SD agencies reported 0 violent and 3 property offenses. That equals about 0 violent and 56 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
  • 0 violent offenses
  • 0/100K violent rate

What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Walworth County, SD

Small-count caution

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

Walworth County reported 0 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 5,315. 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

The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort

Violent offenses are 0.0% of the 3 Part I offenses reported in Walworth County for 2024, against a median of 27.5% across comparable South Dakota counties — a gap of 27.5 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

Walworth County reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable South Dakota counties

At 0.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Walworth County ranks 37 of 41 — above 0 of the 40 other South Dakota counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -100.0% against the cohort median of 43.2. 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 100.0% of reported property offenses in Walworth County, against a cohort median of 60.0%. The remainder is burglary (0) and motor vehicle theft (0). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.

Small-county UCR rows are especially sensitive to which agencies filed. Per-100,000 rates use a matched 2020 Census population when available; otherwise counts only. Do not treat the county total as a town-level crime level.

Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · small county

Category Count
Property Crime 3
Burglary 0
Larceny-Theft 3
Motor Vehicle Theft 0
Arson 0
Violent Crime 0
Murder 0
Rape 0
Robbery 0
Aggravated Assault 0

Reporting Agency

Walworth County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating

Walworth County's crime figures on this page originate from Walworth 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 South Dakota

A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the South Dakota counties closest to Walworth County in population. Their populations run from 5,187 to 6,164, against 5,315 here. Or launch the side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two jurisdictions directly.

ZIP Codes in Walworth County

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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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