Crime in Nebraska (2024)
Nebraska agencies reported 36,948 offenses to the FBI in 2024: 4,330 violent crimes, 32,358 property crimes and 260 arsons, across 182 reporting agencies.
Per 100,000 residents
Against a 2024 population of 2,005,591 (Census estimates). A floor: Nebraska agencies that did not report contribute nothing.
Offenses by category
| Offense | Offenses | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Murder & nonnegligent manslaughter | 42 | 0.1% |
| Rape | 860 | 2.3% |
| Robbery | 411 | 1.1% |
| Aggravated assault | 3,017 | 8.2% |
| Burglary | 3,080 | 8.3% |
| Larceny-theft | 24,251 | 65.6% |
| Motor vehicle theft | 5,027 | 13.6% |
| Arson | 260 | 0.7% |
By county
Counties with sufficient reporting coverage (68 of Nebraska's counties).
- Adams County
- Banner County
- Boone County
- Box Butte County
- Brown County
- Buffalo County
- Burt County
- Butler County
- Cass County
- Cedar County
- Cherry County
- Cheyenne County
- Clay County
- Colfax County
- Cuming County
- Custer County
- Dakota County
- Dawes County
- Dawson County
- Dixon County
- Dodge County
- Douglas County
- Dundy County
- Franklin County
- Furnas County
- Gage County
- Greeley County
- Hall County
- Hamilton County
- Hayes County
- Holt County
- Hooker County
- Jefferson County
- Johnson County
- Kearney County
- Keith County
- Keya Paha County
- Knox County
- Lancaster County
- Lincoln County
- Madison County
- Merrick County
- Morrill County
- Nance County
- Nemaha County
- Otoe County
- Pawnee County
- Perkins County
- Phelps County
- Pierce County
- Platte County
- Polk County
- Red Willow County
- Richardson County
- Saline County
- Sarpy County
- Saunders County
- Scotts Bluff County
- Seward County
- Sheridan County
- Stanton County
- Thayer County
- Thurston County
- Valley County
- Washington County
- Wayne County
- Webster County
- York County
Largest reporting agencies
| Agency | Violent | Property | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Omaha Police Department | 1,772 | 15,184 | 17,044 |
| Lincoln Police Department | 1,029 | 7,235 | 8,334 |
| Grand Island Police Department | 193 | 924 | 1,123 |
| Bellevue Police Department | 63 | 719 | 787 |
| Sarpy County Sheriff's Office | 27 | 679 | 710 |
| Kearney Police Department | 104 | 561 | 669 |
| Douglas County Sheriff's Office | 86 | 560 | 648 |
| North Platte Police Department | 33 | 575 | 612 |
| Hastings Police Department | 79 | 498 | 578 |
| Fremont Police Department | 50 | 525 | 578 |
| Scottsbluff Police Department | 90 | 426 | 524 |
| South Sioux City Police Department | 25 | 366 | 392 |
| Norfolk Police Department | 53 | 300 | 355 |
| Columbus Police Department | 21 | 228 | 250 |
| Papillion Police Department | 8 | 237 | 246 |
How to read these numbers
Counts are offenses reported by law-enforcement agencies to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program for 2024(Return A master file, which incorporates the FBI's own NIBRS-to-SRS conversion for agencies that report incident-based data). Nothing here is estimated: an agency that did not report contributes nothing, so totals are floors, not universes.
County figures use headquarters-county assignment: an agency's offenses count in the county where it is headquartered. Sheriff and state-police activity can span county lines; a county's figure is best read as "offenses reported by agencies based here." Counties where reporting agencies cover less than half of the policed population get no page; between 50% and 80% the page carries a visible partial-coverage notice.
Rates per 100,000 residentsuse Census Population Estimates (PEP) for the same year as the crime data. They appear only where the population served by agencies headquartered in a county is within 10% of the population that lives there. Where a police force covers several counties — the NYPD polices five boroughs from its Manhattan headquarters — the two geographies disagree, and a rate would be wrong by several times over in both directions. Those counties show counts without a rate rather than a number that looks authoritative and isn't.
Because non-reporting agencies contribute nothing, every rate here is a floor: the true rate is at least this high. Rates are most comparable between places with similar reporting coverage, which each page states.
Violent crime = murder + rape + robbery + aggravated assault. Property crime = burglary + larceny-theft + motor vehicle theft. Arson is tracked separately (from the FBI's de-duplicated SRS/NIBRS arson data) and is excluded from the property composite, following FBI practice. Aggravated assault excludes simple assault.
These figures will not match the FBI's published national estimates(which impute for non-reporting agencies) or the 12-month quarterly trend windows elsewhere on this site — different universes, both documented.