Crime in Kannapolis, North Carolina
Major crime in Kannapolis is 18% below the U.S. rate per resident: 45% lower for persons crimes and 11% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 13.8% 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 2.4 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Kannapolis 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 Kannapolis
The middle half of Kannapolis residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 23 and 91; the typical (median) resident's is 43. The citywide figure (83) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5053.7%
- 50–10025.6%
- 100–20013.3%
- 200–4005.3%
- 400+2.1%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest in the daytime
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 13.8% 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.
Kannapolis against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
313 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Kannapolis; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Kannapolis 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, Landis (5 mi), is about Kannapolis's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Kannapolis
What are the most common crimes in Kannapolis?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 323 a year), other larceny (about 203 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 118 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 2.4 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. Kannapolis's figures add up its 31 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Kannapolis's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 69.8% 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: 65,065. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Kannapolis, North Carolina." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nc/kannapolis
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Landis5 mi82
- Concord6 mi52
- China Grove7 mi67
- Davidson10 mi20
- Harrisburg11 mi40
- Mooresville13 mi98
- Huntersville13 mi60
- Cornelius14 mi54