Decision-support ranking comparing North Carolina cities by current violent crime per 1,000 using the currently published coarse crime context, then routing readers into each city brief for tract context and caveats.
Ranked rows are precomputed and served as static HTML from R2.
| # | Place | Metric | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Henderson Violent Crime has increased 8% since 2021. |
13.7 / 1k | → |
| 2 | Lumberton Violent Crime has declined 12% since 2021. |
13.1 / 1k | → |
| 3 | Burlington Violent Crime has increased 16% since 2021. |
9.2 / 1k | → |
| 4 | Goldsboro Violent Crime has increased 19% since 2021. |
8.2 / 1k | → |
| 5 | Dunn Violent Crime has increased 7% since 2021. |
7.9 / 1k | → |
| 6 | Gastonia Violent Crime has declined 7% since 2021. |
7.5 / 1k | → |
| 7 | Kinston Violent Crime has declined 9% since 2021. |
7.4 / 1k | → |
| 8 | Asheville Violent Crime has increased 3% since 2021. |
7.4 / 1k | → |
| 9 | Roanoke Rapids Violent Crime has increased 1% since 2021. |
7.0 / 1k | → |
| 10 | Greensboro Violent Crime has increased 6% since 2021. |
6.9 / 1k | → |
| 11 | Salisbury Violent Crime has been relatively flat over the tracked period. |
6.9 / 1k | → |
| 12 | Benson Violent Crime has declined 7% since 2021. |
6.6 / 1k | → |
| 13 | Shelby Violent Crime has declined 10% since 2021. |
6.6 / 1k | → |
| 14 | Pineville Violent Crime has declined 19% since 2021. |
6.5 / 1k | → |
| 15 | Selma Violent Crime has increased 31% since 2021. |
6.3 / 1k | → |
| 16 | Winston Salem Violent Crime has declined 23% since 2021. |
6.2 / 1k | → |
| 17 | Rocky Mount Violent Crime has declined 6% since 2021. |
6.1 / 1k | → |
| 18 | Monroe Violent Crime has declined 10% since 2021. |
5.7 / 1k | → |
| 19 | Durham Violent Crime has declined 15% since 2021. |
5.5 / 1k | → |
| 20 | Kings Mountain Violent Crime has increased 61% since 2021. |
5.3 / 1k | → |
| 21 | Fayetteville Violent Crime has declined 30% since 2021. |
5.1 / 1k | → |
| 22 | Forest City Violent Crime has increased 20% since 2021. |
4.9 / 1k | → |
| 23 | Tarboro Violent Crime has declined 16% since 2023. |
4.8 / 1k | → |
| 24 | Washington Violent Crime has declined 37% since 2021. |
4.6 / 1k | → |
| 25 | Waynesville Violent Crime has declined 2% since 2021. |
4.6 / 1k | → |
This page is useful for a current statewide pressure screen. It compares supported North Carolina cities by aggregate violent-crime rate before you open the deeper city briefs. Outside Colorado, this remains statewide fallback context rather than local incident-feed depth.
A current city rate does not tell you whether conditions are improving, how concentrated the pressure is, or which neighborhoods are driving it. Open the city brief and neighborhood pages next.