Crime in Aberdeen, North Carolina
Major crime in Aberdeen is 50% above the U.S. rate per resident: 22% lower for persons crimes and 1.7 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.9% from a year earlier.
Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this
Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.
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Shoplifting and drugs and alcohol stand out most, at about 3.5 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Aberdeen for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Property crimes
Social disorder
How crime varies across Aberdeen
The middle half of Aberdeen residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 65 and 134; the typical (median) resident's is 71. The citywide figure (150) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–10061.1%
- 100–20023.8%
- 200–4000.0%
- 400+15.1%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 7.9% in a year; across North Carolina it fell 9.0%
Change in expected crimes, with North Carolina as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.
Aberdeen against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
277 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Aberdeen; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Aberdeen has a higher major-crime index than 6 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Southern Pines (4 mi), is 24% below Aberdeen's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Aberdeen
What are the most common crimes in Aberdeen?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 127 a year), other larceny (about 71 a year) and burglary (about 28 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 3.5 times the U.S. rate per resident.
How we calculated this
Each police agency's crimes, as reported to the FBI, are spread across the census block groups it serves using population, jobs, points of interest and, where available, local incident records. Aberdeen's figures add up its 6 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Aberdeen has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 23.8% of residents live in block groups whose estimate has high confidence (80% interval within about 5x).
- Rates are per resident, so places where many people work or visit but few live, such as downtowns, airports and stadiums, can read high.
- Disorderly conduct and trespassing are modeled, because the FBI records them only through arrests.
- Residents: 11,305. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Aberdeen, North Carolina." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nc/aberdeen
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Southern Pines4 mi114
- Pinehurst5 mi27
- Whispering Pines8 mi21
- Seven Lakes13 mi32
- Carthage14 mi125
- Raeford16 mi92
- Rockingham23 mi251
- Hamlet24 mi216