County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
Woodbury County, IA
At 105,941 residents, Woodbury County is a large county in Iowa. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Woodbury County, IA reported 28 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Woodbury County, IA agencies reported 30 violent and 63 property offenses. That equals about 28 violent and 60 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
30 violent offenses
28/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Woodbury County, IA
Position in the state cohort
Woodbury County sits mid-pack among comparable Iowa counties
At 28.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Woodbury County ranks 63 of 86 — above 23 of the 85 other Iowa counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -38.9% against the cohort median of 46.3. 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 make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 32.3% of the 93 Part I offenses reported in Woodbury County for 2024, against a median of 24.0% across comparable Iowa counties — a gap of 8.3 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
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 46.0% of reported property offenses in Woodbury County, against a cohort median of 57.1%. The remainder is burglary (17) and motor vehicle theft (17). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 30.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 28.3 in 2024 (-6.3%). The highest observed value was 35.9 in 2021 and the lowest 22.7 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
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
63
Burglary
17
Larceny-Theft
29
Motor Vehicle Theft
17
Arson
4
Violent Crime
30
Murder
0
Rape
2
Robbery
1
Aggravated Assault
27
Reporting Agency
Woodbury County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Woodbury County's crime figures on this page originate from Woodbury 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 Iowa
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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.