CrimeMetric

Crime in Hendersonville, North Carolina

Major crime in Hendersonville is 16% above the U.S. rate per resident: 21% lower for persons crimes and 24% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.4% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
116
16% above the U.S. rate
about the North Carolina rate
down 7.4% in a year
Persons crimes
79
21% below the U.S. rate
20% below the North Carolina rate
down 4.7% in a year
Property crimes
124
24% above the U.S. rate
8% above the North Carolina rate
down 7.7% in a year
Social disorder
156
1.6 times the U.S. rate
28% above the North Carolina rate
down 6.0% 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 3.0 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Hendersonville 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 Hendersonville

The middle half of Hendersonville residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 45 and 172; the typical (median) resident's is 113.

Map of Hendersonville, 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.
  • 0–5032.6%
  • 50–1008.0%
  • 100–20052.5%
  • 200–4006.9%
  • 400+0.0%

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 6pm160
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am75
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm120
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am74
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 7.4% in a year; across North Carolina it fell 9.0%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-7.4%NC -9.0%-12.5%NC -9.2%
Persons crimes-4.7%NC -4.5%+2.4%NC +2.7%
Property crimes-7.7%NC -9.9%-14.6%NC -11.5%
Social disorder-6.0%NC -6.8%-7.4%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

Hendersonville against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents

502 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Hendersonville; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:

Donna, TX16,201327
Bristol, VA16,173177
Hendersonville, NC16,193116
Hayden, ID16,15963
Westbury, NY16,24551

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

Nearby places

Hendersonville 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, Mountain Home (4 mi), is 73% below Hendersonville's rate.

Asheville18 mi275
Hendersonville116
Fletcher8 mi91
Tryon15 mi72
Brevard16 mi45
Etowah8 mi44

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

Questions about crime in Hendersonville

What are the most common crimes in Hendersonville?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 158 a year), burglary (about 52 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 31 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 3.0 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. Hendersonville's figures add up its 10 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Hendersonville's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
  • 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: 16,193. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100