Transylvania County Sheriff’s Office

Jurisdiction and responsibilities

The Transylvania County Sheriff’s Office is the county law-enforcement agency, headquartered in Brevard. Brevard Police is a separate municipal agency. Park and forest areas can involve state or federal officers rather than another independent county police department.

How the agency is organized

The county describes the sheriff as a full-service law-enforcement office. Administrative headquarters is at 153 Public Safety Way. The association lists separate detention contact information, which should be used for jail-specific questions instead of assuming the administrative telephone covers every service.

Agency history and local context

Transylvania County was formed in 1861 from portions of Jackson and Henderson counties. The present office’s institutional history has not been assigned a founding year merely because the county was created that year.

Official records and officer resources

Use the official sheriff website and county department directory for current services and employment information. An older county description contains handgun-purchase-permit language that is not repeated here; current procedures must be checked at the agency’s live service page.

FBI data · 2025

The following figures are from the FBI’s 2025 published agency tables. They describe a reporting period, not current staffing or an assessment of agency performance.

Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer downloads, table 10; published agency label: Transylvania. CIUS_Table_10_Offenses_Known_to_Law_Enforcement_by_State_by_Metropolitan_and_Nonmetropolitan_Counties_2025.xlsx

This is a county-level agency row, not the total for every police department or every offense in the county.

Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer downloads, table 80; published agency label: Transylvania. Table_80_Full_time_Law_Enforcement_Employees_by_State_by_Metropolitan_and_Nonmetropolitan_Counties_2025.xlsx

Blank or unavailable values remain “Not published.” Participating agencies and reporting scope vary. Campus figures concern the reporting institution; a city name does not expand them to all local residents. Read the data definitions and limitations.

NC SBI data · 2024

The NC SBI record is published under Transylvania Co. Sheriff. Its 2024 reporting-status table lists: Reporting. These earlier figures are presented separately from the FBI’s 2025 tables.

Published Index-crime total: 167.

Sources: SBI agency reporting status · SBI law-enforcement personnel · SBI Index offenses by agency in county.

Personnel are a dated full-time payroll snapshot. Civilian classifications can include jail employees without outside police powers. These are not authorized-position or vacancy counts. Index-crime totals cover selected categories and are not totals of all crime.

Sources and review date

Official agency, government and institutional sources are linked below. Contact details and organizational information were reviewed September 24, 2026. Published statistical years are identified separately.

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