Crime in Cornelius, North Carolina
Major crime in Cornelius is 46% below the U.S. rate per resident: 69% lower for persons crimes and 42% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 11.9% 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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Every crime type in Cornelius is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Cornelius 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 Cornelius
The middle half of Cornelius residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 27 and 62; the typical (median) resident's is 39. The citywide figure (54) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5071.3%
- 50–10018.4%
- 100–2008.2%
- 200–4002.0%
- 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 weekdays, day and night
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 11.9% 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.
Cornelius against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
681 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Cornelius; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Cornelius has a higher major-crime index than 3 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Davidson (4 mi), is 63% below Cornelius's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Cornelius
What are the most common crimes in Cornelius?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 154 a year), theft from vehicle (about 77 a year) and burglary (about 43 a year). Compared with the U.S., other larceny stands out most: 18% below 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. Cornelius's figures add up its 18 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Cornelius's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 18.0% 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: 37,712. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Cornelius, North Carolina." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nc/cornelius
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Davidson4 mi20
- Huntersville4 mi60
- Mooresville8 mi98
- Lake Norman of Catawba10 mi25
- Mount Holly13 mi64
- Kannapolis14 mi83
- Stanley14 mi57
- Concord15 mi52