Crime in Morganton, North Carolina
Major crime in Morganton is 28% above the U.S. rate per resident: about the same for persons crimes and 34% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.2% 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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Burglary stands out most, at 2.5 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Morganton 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 Morganton
The middle half of Morganton residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 85 and 194; the typical (median) resident's is 111.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–10030.9%
- 100–20060.3%
- 200–4008.8%
- 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 fell 8.2% 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.
Morganton against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
401 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Morganton; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Morganton 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, Valdese (7 mi), is 8% below Morganton's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Morganton
What are the most common crimes in Morganton?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 112 a year), burglary (about 56 a year) and shoplifting (about 52 a year). Compared with the U.S., burglary stands out most: 2.5 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. Morganton's figures add up its 10 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Morganton has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 23.8% 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: 13,719. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Morganton, North Carolina." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nc/morganton
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Valdese7 mi118
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- Lenoir14 mi171
- Granite Falls15 mi99
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- Marion18 mi163
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- St. Stephens23 mi42