Crime in Butner, North Carolina
Major crime in Butner is 27% below the U.S. rate per resident: 19% lower for persons crimes and 29% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.5% 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 stands out most, at 2.2 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Butner 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 Butner
The middle half of Butner residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 51 and 103; the typical (median) resident's is 69.
- 0–5012.1%
- 50–10054.7%
- 100–20033.2%
- 200–4000.0%
- 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 8.5% 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.
Butner against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
910 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Butner; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Butner has a higher major-crime index than 2 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Creedmoor (4 mi), is 14% above Butner's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Butner
What are the most common crimes in Butner?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 38 a year), aggravated assault (about 19 a year) and burglary (about 16 a year). Compared with the U.S., murder stands out most: 2.2 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. Butner's figures add up its 6 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Butner's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 0.0% 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: 9,026. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Butner, North Carolina." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nc/butner
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Creedmoor4 mi83
- Durham13 mi237
- Oxford16 mi224
- Wake Forest17 mi51
- Hillsborough20 mi143
- Morrisville20 mi138
- Rolesville21 mi25
- Raleigh21 mi148