Crime in High Point, North Carolina
Major crime in High Point is 29% above the U.S. rate per resident: 1.5 times for persons crimes and 24% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.4% 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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Burglary and aggravated assault stand out most, at about 1.8 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in High Point 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 High Point
The middle half of High Point residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 44 and 139; the typical (median) resident's is 89. The citywide figure (129) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5033.6%
- 50–10024.6%
- 100–20029.3%
- 200–4008.9%
- 400+3.6%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekends
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 8.4% 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.
High Point against U.S. places with 100,000 to 250,000 residents
98 of the 268 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than High Point; the middle of the group is 109. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
High Point 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, Archdale (7 mi), is 44% below High Point's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in High Point
What are the most common crimes in High Point?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 598 a year), other larceny (about 544 a year) and aggravated assault (about 508 a year). Compared with the U.S., burglary stands out most: 1.8 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. High Point's figures add up its 78 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- High Point's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 74.2% 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: 126,191. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in High Point, North Carolina." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nc/high-point
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Archdale7 mi72
- Trinity8 mi47
- Thomasville9 mi99
- Kernersville10 mi172
- Greensboro12 mi173
- Oak Ridge13 mi30
- Pleasant Garden13 mi39
- Midway13 mi44