Crime Rate in North Carolina (2025)
The FBI-based Crime Index for 21 cities in North Carolina, plus the statewide average. Scores run 0–100 (higher = safer) and are built from FBI Crime Data Explorer reports for 2025.
Crime Index
Crime trend in North Carolina
All 21 cities in North Carolina
Ranked safest to most dangerous by Crime Index.
- 1ApexA853per 100k1.3homicide
- 2CaryA1,040per 100k0.5homicide
- 3Wake ForestA1,104per 100k3.4homicide
- 4ConcordB1,047per 100k1.8homicide
- 5HuntersvilleB1,213per 100k2.9homicide
- 6Chapel HillB1,861per 100k0.0homicide
- 7KannapolisB1,682per 100k4.8homicide
- 8JacksonvilleB1,953per 100k8.5homicide
- 9MooresvilleC2,152per 100k1.9homicide
- 10RaleighC2,695per 100k4.9homicide
- 11GreenvilleC2,817per 100k8.3homicide
- 12High PointD2,488per 100k4.2homicide
- 13WilmingtonD3,317per 100k7.0homicide
- 14GreensboroD2,839per 100k8.4homicide
- 15FayettevilleD3,369per 100k16.3homicide
- 16BurlingtonD3,297per 100k4.8homicide
- 17DurhamD4,105per 100k10.7homicide
- 18Rocky MountE4,053per 100k27.5homicide
- 19Winston SalemE3,765per 100k10.5homicide
- 20GastoniaE3,778per 100k5.8homicide
- 21AshevilleE5,140per 100k4.2homicide
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A high Crime Index score means lower reported crime relative to other US cities — it is not a guarantee of safety. Reported crime is not the same as actual crime. Research on the gap between crime that occurs and crime that gets reported to police — often called the "dark figure" of crime — estimates that roughly 40% of violent crime and about a third of property crime go unreported each year. Every index built on official statistics, including this one, necessarily undercounts real crime. That gap is exactly why homicide — the offense with the smallest dark figure — anchors the calculation instead of a more commonly reported but less reliable category like theft.
Scores on this page reflect FBI-reported data for 2025. See the full methodology →