Crime in Monroe, North Carolina
Major crime in Monroe is 31% above the U.S. rate per resident: 22% higher for persons crimes and 33% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 16.6% 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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Weapons violations stand out most, at 2.6 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Monroe 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 Monroe
The middle half of Monroe residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 63 and 178; the typical (median) resident's is 134.
- 0–5021.8%
- 50–10014.2%
- 100–20047.9%
- 200–40015.2%
- 400+0.8%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest at night
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 16.6% 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.
Monroe against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
183 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Monroe; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Monroe 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, Unionville (6 mi), is 72% below Monroe's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Monroe
What are the most common crimes in Monroe?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 332 a year), shoplifting (about 171 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 161 a year). Compared with the U.S., weapons violations stands out most: 2.6 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. Monroe's figures add up its 24 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Monroe's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 69.4% 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: 45,524. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Monroe, North Carolina." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nc/monroe
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Unionville6 mi37
- Indian Trail7 mi37
- Wesley Chapel8 mi42
- Stallings10 mi57
- Marshville11 mi146
- Fairview11 mi39
- Waxhaw12 mi27
- Matthews12 mi137