Crime in Jacksonville, North Carolina
Major crime in Jacksonville is 23% below the U.S. rate per resident: 29% lower for persons crimes and 22% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 28.5% 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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Drugs and alcohol stands out most, at 2.1 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Jacksonville 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 Jacksonville
The middle half of Jacksonville residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 6 and 90; the typical (median) resident's is 31. The citywide figure (77) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5064.1%
- 50–10016.9%
- 100–2008.7%
- 200–4004.5%
- 400+5.8%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekend daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 28.5% 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.
Jacksonville against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
342 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Jacksonville; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Jacksonville has a higher major-crime index than 4 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Piney Green (4 mi), is 18% below Jacksonville's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Jacksonville
What are the most common crimes in Jacksonville?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 327 a year), shoplifting (about 252 a year) and aggravated assault (about 126 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 2.1 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. Jacksonville's figures add up its 43 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Jacksonville's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 33.8% 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: 74,232. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Jacksonville, North Carolina." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nc/jacksonville
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Piney Green4 mi64
- Half Moon7 mi52
- Emerald Isle21 mi117
- Trent Woods29 mi19
- Havelock29 mi71
- Newport30 mi77
- James City31 mi94
- New Bern31 mi108