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Columbia County Sheriff's Office

County agency in Columbia, Oregon. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2016.

ORI
OR0050000
Type
County
County
Columbia
State
Oregon
FBI reporting
Reporting since 2016-01-01
Location
45.9419, -123.0811

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 25,046.

24Sworn officers
34Civilian staff
2.32Employees per 1,000 people
25,046Population served
YearOfficersCiviliansPopulation servedPer 1,000
2025243425,0462.32
2024293625,5452.54
2023243624,7292.43
2022214024,6212.48
2021183824,4972.29
2020461324,6082.40
2019441324,6782.31
2018441324,7332.30
2017541322,2693.01
2016143121,9822.05
201533922,0551.90
201440421,8812.01

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.

Deaths during encounters with this agency

2 people have died during an encounter with Columbia County Sheriff's Office between 2022 and 2025, according to Mapping Police Violence.

2Deaths recorded
7.99Per 100,000 people policed
20222025Period covered
Recorded causeDeaths
Gunshot2

What this figure is and is not. It counts deaths recorded as occurring during an encounter with this agency. It is not a finding of wrongdoing, and a death being recorded here says nothing about whether it was lawful. Many involve armed confrontations; some involve none. Police Census publishes counts only and does not name the people who died.

These records are compiled from news reports and public records by Mapping Police Violence, an independent research organisation — they are not official statistics, and no federal database records this comprehensively. Used with permission.

Also policing Columbia

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

Source

Agency identity, type, jurisdiction, coordinates and reporting status are as published by the FBI Crime Data Explorer, agency record OR0050000. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.