Crime in Fayetteville, North Carolina
Major crime in Fayetteville is 1.8 times the U.S. rate per resident: 1.9 times for persons crimes and 1.8 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 4.3% 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 stands out most, at 3.6 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Fayetteville 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 Fayetteville
The middle half of Fayetteville residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 59 and 209; the typical (median) resident's is 104. The citywide figure (183) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5018.8%
- 50–10028.3%
- 100–20026.1%
- 200–40018.5%
- 400+8.3%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weeknights and on weekend daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 4.3% 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.
Fayetteville against U.S. places with 100,000 to 250,000 residents
46 of the 268 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Fayetteville; the middle of the group is 109. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Fayetteville 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, Hope Mills (7 mi), is about Fayetteville's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Fayetteville
What are the most common crimes in Fayetteville?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 1,605 a year), other larceny (about 1,483 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 1,145 a year). Compared with the U.S., murder stands out most: 3.6 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. Fayetteville's figures add up its 146 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Fayetteville's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 71.8% 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: 210,243. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Fayetteville, North Carolina." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nc/fayetteville
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Hope Mills7 mi189
- Spring Lake7 mi175
- Eastover10 mi128
- Anderson Creek13 mi63
- Spout Springs14 mi37
- Raeford16 mi92
- Red Springs23 mi204
- Erwin24 mi138