Crime in Goldsboro, North Carolina
Major crime in Goldsboro is 2.6 times the U.S. rate per resident: 4.1 times for persons crimes and 2.3 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 12.0% 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 5.8 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Goldsboro 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 Goldsboro
The middle half of Goldsboro residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 126 and 300; the typical (median) resident's is 225.
- 0–503.8%
- 50–10011.5%
- 100–20021.2%
- 200–40050.8%
- 400+12.7%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest at night
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 12.0% 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.
Goldsboro against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
18 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Goldsboro; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Goldsboro 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, Elroy (5 mi), is 50% below Goldsboro's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Goldsboro
What are the most common crimes in Goldsboro?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 608 a year), aggravated assault (about 364 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 198 a year). Compared with the U.S., murder stands out most: 5.8 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. Goldsboro's figures add up its 23 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Goldsboro's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 84.3% 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: 33,679. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Goldsboro, North Carolina." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nc/goldsboro
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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