Crime in Gastonia, North Carolina
Major crime in Gastonia is 1.6 times the U.S. rate per resident: 2.3 times for persons crimes and 45% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 17.4% 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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Aggravated assault stands out most, at 2.7 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Gastonia 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 Gastonia
The middle half of Gastonia residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 56 and 198; the typical (median) resident's is 111. The citywide figure (161) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5019.3%
- 50–10019.1%
- 100–20037.8%
- 200–40018.7%
- 400+5.1%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on Friday and Saturday nights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 17.4% 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.
Gastonia against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
78 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Gastonia; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Gastonia has a higher major-crime index than 7 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Lowell (4 mi), is 2.3 times Gastonia's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Gastonia
What are the most common crimes in Gastonia?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are aggravated assault (about 550 a year), other larceny (about 532 a year) and shoplifting (about 472 a year). Compared with the U.S., aggravated assault stands out most: 2.7 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. Gastonia's figures add up its 64 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Gastonia's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 78.0% 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: 89,950. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Gastonia, North Carolina." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nc/gastonia
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