Crime in Mills River, North Carolina
Major crime in Mills River is 51% below the U.S. rate per resident: 64% lower for persons crimes and 48% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 1.3% 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 2.8 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Mills River 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
Neighborhoods in Mills River
Mills River is made up of 4 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 52; the middle half of residents live where it is between 39 and 54.
- 0–5035.3%
- 50–10064.7%
- 100–2000.0%
- 200–4000.0%
- 400+0.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime rose 1.3% 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.
Mills River against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
1,396 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Mills River; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Mills River has a higher major-crime index than 3 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Mountain Home (5 mi), is 35% below Mills River's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Mills River
What are the most common crimes in Mills River?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 27 a year), burglary (about 15 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 8 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 2.8 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. Mills River's figures add up its 4 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Mills River has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 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: 7,978. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Mills River, North Carolina." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nc/mills-river
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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