CrimeMetric

Crime in Dunn, North Carolina

Major crime in Dunn is 2.6 times the U.S. rate per resident: 1.6 times for persons crimes and 2.8 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.7% from a year earlier.

Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this

Major crime
262
2.6 times the U.S. rate
2.3 times the North Carolina rate
down 8.7% in a year
Persons crimes
157
1.6 times the U.S. rate
1.6 times the North Carolina rate
down 5.2% in a year
Property crimes
285
2.8 times the U.S. rate
2.5 times the North Carolina rate
down 9.1% in a year
Social disorder
352
3.5 times the U.S. rate
2.9 times the North Carolina rate
down 7.3% in a year

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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Crime by type

Drugs and alcohol stands out most, at 6.8 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Dunn for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

How crime varies across Dunn

The middle half of Dunn residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 210 and 234; the typical (median) resident's is 220. The citywide figure (262) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Dunn, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the bar's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–500.0%
  • 50–1000.0%
  • 100–20023.3%
  • 200–40057.8%
  • 400+18.9%

Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.

When it happens

Highest on weekday daytimes

Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm346
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am175
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm272
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am199
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 8.7% in a year; across North Carolina it fell 9.0%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-8.7%NC -9.0%-11.9%NC -9.2%
Persons crimes-5.2%NC -4.5%+2.6%NC +2.7%
Property crimes-9.1%NC -9.9%-13.7%NC -11.5%
Social disorder-7.3%NC -6.8%-6.4%NC -3.7%

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.

Similar-size places

Dunn against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents

53 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Dunn; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.

Nearby places

Dunn has a higher major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Erwin (3 mi), is 47% below Dunn's rate.

Dunn262
Smithfield20 mi231
Spring Lake23 mi175
Benson5 mi152
Erwin3 mi138
Eastover19 mi128

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.

Questions about crime in Dunn

What are the most common crimes in Dunn?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 194 a year), burglary (about 84 a year) and aggravated assault (about 32 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 6.8 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. Dunn's figures add up its 7 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Dunn 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: 8,935. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Dunn, North Carolina." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nc/dunn

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100