CrimeMetric

Crime in Lumberton, North Carolina

Major crime in Lumberton is 4.8 times the U.S. rate per resident: 3.8 times for persons crimes and 5.0 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.1% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
477
4.8 times the U.S. rate
4.3 times the North Carolina rate
down 8.1% in a year
Persons crimes
378
3.8 times the U.S. rate
3.8 times the North Carolina rate
down 4.4% in a year
Property crimes
499
5.0 times the U.S. rate
4.3 times the North Carolina rate
down 8.7% in a year
Social disorder
278
2.8 times the U.S. rate
2.3 times the North Carolina rate
down 6.3% 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

Burglary stands out most, at 8.0 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Lumberton 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 Lumberton

The middle half of Lumberton residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 303 and 514; the typical (median) resident's is 376. The citywide figure (477) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Lumberton, 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.
  • 0–500.0%
  • 50–1000.0%
  • 100–2007.9%
  • 200–40046.1%
  • 400+46.0%

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 6pm553
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am412
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm507
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am369
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 8.1% in a year; across North Carolina it fell 9.0%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-8.1%NC -9.0%-15.1%NC -9.2%
Persons crimes-4.4%NC -4.5%-2.8%NC +2.7%
Property crimes-8.7%NC -9.9%-17.1%NC -11.5%
Social disorder-6.3%NC -6.8%-9.0%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

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

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

Lumberton, NC18,960477
Ojus, FL18,94487
Rosedale, CA18,96968
Morton, IL18,98437
Kaukauna, WI18,98436

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

Nearby places

Lumberton 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, Red Springs (17 mi), is 57% below Lumberton's rate.

Lumberton477
Dillon, SC26 mi398
Whiteville26 mi312
Laurinburg28 mi302
Red Springs17 mi204
Hope Mills24 mi189
Maxton21 mi159
Raeford28 mi92

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

Questions about crime in Lumberton

What are the most common crimes in Lumberton?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 403 a year), shoplifting (about 399 a year) and burglary (about 247 a year). Compared with the U.S., burglary stands out most: 8.0 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. Lumberton's figures add up its 20 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Lumberton has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
  • 86.6% 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: 18,960. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100