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Buffalo County Sheriff's Office

County agency in Buffalo, Nebraska. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 1998.

ORI: NB0100000
Type: County
County: Buffalo
State: Nebraska
FBI reporting: Reporting since 1998-01-01
Location: 40.8552, -99.0750

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 15,113.

33Sworn officers

58Civilian staff

6.02Employees per 1,000 people

15,113Population served

Year	Officers	Civilians	Population served	Per 1,000
2025	33	58	15,113	6.02
2024	33	50	15,539	5.34
2023	34	53	15,134	5.75
2022	31	56	14,983	5.81
2021	30	53	14,962	5.55
2020	28	21	14,262	3.44
2019	29	18	14,358	3.27
2018	29	17	15,883	2.90
2017	29	19	15,962	3.01
2016	26	19	15,871	2.84
2015	27	19	15,897	2.89
2014	27	19	15,897	2.89

Officer and civilian counts are full-time employees as filed by the agency in its annual return. A dash means the agency did not report that figure for that year — it does not mean zero.

Also policing Buffalo

Jurisdictions overlap. These agencies are also recorded against the same county, so a single address may be covered by more than one of them.

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Source

Agency identity, type, jurisdiction, coordinates and reporting status are as published by the FBI Crime Data Explorer, agency record NB0100000. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.