Crime in Carthage, North Carolina
Major crime in Carthage is 25% above the U.S. rate per resident: 25% lower for persons crimes and 36% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.8% 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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Drugs and alcohol stands out most, at 5.4 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Carthage 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
Neighborhoods in Carthage
Carthage is made up of 3 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 141; the middle half of residents live where it is between 88 and 158.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–10040.9%
- 100–20059.1%
- 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 8.8% 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.
Carthage against U.S. places with 2,000 to 5,000 residents
265 of the 1,761 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Carthage; the middle of the group is 58. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Carthage 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, Whispering Pines (7 mi), is 83% below Carthage's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Carthage
What are the most common crimes in Carthage?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 21 a year), shoplifting (about 11 a year) and burglary (about 8 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 5.4 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. Carthage's figures add up its 3 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Carthage has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 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: 2,614. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Carthage, North Carolina." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nc/carthage
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Whispering Pines7 mi21
- Pinehurst11 mi27
- Seven Lakes11 mi32
- Southern Pines11 mi114
- Aberdeen14 mi150
- Sanford17 mi25
- Spout Springs23 mi37
- Siler City26 mi125