Crime in North Carolina (2024)
North Carolina agencies reported 246,583 offenses to the FBI in 2024: 39,303 violent crimes, 205,949 property crimes and 1,331 arsons, across 378 reporting agencies.
Per 100,000 residents
Against a 2024 population of 11,052,061 (Census estimates). A floor: North Carolina agencies that did not report contribute nothing.
Offenses by category
| Offense | Offenses | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Murder & nonnegligent manslaughter | 773 | 0.3% |
| Rape | 2,861 | 1.2% |
| Robbery | 5,367 | 2.2% |
| Aggravated assault | 30,302 | 12.3% |
| Burglary | 33,791 | 13.7% |
| Larceny-theft | 145,191 | 58.9% |
| Motor vehicle theft | 26,967 | 10.9% |
| Arson | 1,331 | 0.5% |
By county
Counties with sufficient reporting coverage (90 of North Carolina's counties).
- Alamance County
- Alexander County
- Alleghany County
- Anson County
- Ashe County
- Avery County
- Bertie County
- Bladen County
- Brunswick County
- Buncombe County
- Burke County
- Cabarrus County
- Caldwell County
- Camden County
- Carteret County
- Caswell County
- Chatham County
- Cherokee County
- Chowan County
- Clay County
- Cleveland County
- Craven County
- Cumberland County
- Currituck County
- Dare County
- Davidson County
- Davie County
- Duplin County
- Durham County
- Edgecombe County
- Forsyth County
- Gaston County
- Gates County
- Granville County
- Greene County
- Guilford County
- Halifax County
- Harnett County
- Haywood County
- Henderson County
- Hertford County
- Hoke County
- Hyde County
- Iredell County
- Jackson County
- Johnston County
- Lee County
- Lincoln County
- Macon County
- Madison County
- Martin County
- McDowell County
- Mecklenburg County
- Montgomery County
- Moore County
- Nash County
- New Hanover County
- Northampton County
- Onslow County
- Orange County
- Pamlico County
- Pasquotank County
- Pender County
- Perquimans County
- Person County
- Pitt County
- Polk County
- Randolph County
- Richmond County
- Robeson County
- Rockingham County
- Rowan County
- Rutherford County
- Sampson County
- Scotland County
- Stokes County
- Surry County
- Swain County
- Transylvania County
- Tyrrell County
- Union County
- Vance County
- Wake County
- Warren County
- Watauga County
- Wayne County
- Wilkes County
- Wilson County
- Yadkin County
- Yancey County
Largest reporting agencies
| Agency | Violent | Property | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department | 7,355 | 37,169 | 44,688 |
| Raleigh Police Department | 2,386 | 13,760 | 16,182 |
| Durham Police Department | 1,859 | 11,407 | 13,301 |
| Greensboro Police Department | 2,811 | 10,295 | 13,196 |
| Winston-Salem Police Department | 2,057 | 7,421 | 9,548 |
| Fayetteville Police Department | 1,386 | 6,497 | 7,939 |
| Wilmington Police Department | 604 | 4,397 | 5,009 |
| Asheville Police Department | 758 | 3,709 | 4,497 |
| Gastonia Police Department | 723 | 2,991 | 3,736 |
| High Point Police Department | 535 | 2,889 | 3,464 |
| Greenville Police Department | 412 | 2,648 | 3,073 |
| Robeson County Sheriff's Office | 900 | 1,885 | 2,840 |
| Rocky Mount Police Department | 415 | 2,158 | 2,599 |
| Cary Police Department | 129 | 2,395 | 2,532 |
| Burlington Police Department | 580 | 1,879 | 2,485 |
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.