CrimeMetric

Crime in Morrisville, North Carolina

Major crime in Morrisville is 38% above the U.S. rate per resident: 69% lower for persons crimes and 1.6 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are about flat from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
138
38% above the U.S. rate
24% above the North Carolina rate
about flat in a year
Persons crimes
32
69% below the U.S. rate
68% below the North Carolina rate
down 5.4% in a year
Property crimes
162
1.6 times the U.S. rate
41% above the North Carolina rate
about flat in a year
Social disorder
85
15% below the U.S. rate
30% below the North Carolina rate
about flat 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

Theft from vehicle stands out most, at 3.8 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Morrisville 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 Morrisville

The middle half of Morrisville residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 55 and 128; the typical (median) resident's is 66. The citywide figure (138) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Morrisville, 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. Tap one to compare it. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5021.1%
  • 50–10053.9%
  • 100–20011.5%
  • 200–4000.0%
  • 400+13.5%

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 weeknights

Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm124
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am165
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm120
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am141
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 0.2% in a year; across North Carolina it fell 9.0%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-0.2%NC -9.0%-9.5%NC -9.2%
Persons crimes-5.4%NC -4.5%+1.0%NC +2.7%
Property crimes0.0%NC -9.9%-10.0%NC -11.5%
Social disorder-0.5%NC -6.8%-4.5%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

Morrisville against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents

156 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Morrisville; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:

Morrisville, NC34,017138
Pullman, WA34,08441

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

Nearby places

Morrisville has a higher major-crime index than 5 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Cary (3 mi), is 65% below Morrisville's rate.

Durham11 mi237
Garner16 mi180
Raleigh12 mi148
Morrisville138
Chapel Hill13 mi138
Carrboro15 mi130
Cary3 mi49
Apex8 mi44

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

Questions about crime in Morrisville

What are the most common crimes in Morrisville?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are theft from vehicle (about 344 a year), shoplifting (about 256 a year) and other larceny (about 92 a year). Compared with the U.S., theft from vehicle stands out most: 3.8 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. Morrisville's figures add up its 14 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Morrisville's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
  • 52.3% 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: 34,017. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100