Crime in Bessemer City, North Carolina
Major crime in Bessemer City is about the U.S. rate per resident: 14% higher for persons crimes and about the same for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.3% 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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Murder and weapons violations stand out most, at about 1.8 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Bessemer City 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 Bessemer City
The middle half of Bessemer City residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 72 and 94; the typical (median) resident's is 79. The citywide figure (100) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–10092.5%
- 100–2000.0%
- 200–4007.5%
- 400+0.0%
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 8.3% 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.
Bessemer City against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
552 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Bessemer City; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Bessemer City has a higher major-crime index than 4 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Kings Mountain (5 mi), is 40% above Bessemer City's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Bessemer City
What are the most common crimes in Bessemer City?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 42 a year), aggravated assault (about 20 a year) and burglary (about 18 a year). Compared with the U.S., murder stands out most: 1.8 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. Bessemer City's figures add up its 7 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Bessemer City has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 7.5% 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: 6,855. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Bessemer City, North Carolina." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nc/bessemer-city
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Kings Mountain5 mi140
- Dallas6 mi89
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