Crime in New Bern, North Carolina
Major crime in New Bern is 8% above the U.S. rate per resident: 19% lower for persons crimes and 14% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 12.9% 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 3.7 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in New Bern 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 New Bern
The middle half of New Bern residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 31 and 107; the typical (median) resident's is 85. The citywide figure (108) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5030.2%
- 50–10035.1%
- 100–20021.6%
- 200–4007.6%
- 400+5.4%
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 12.9% 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.
New Bern against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
268 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than New Bern; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
New Bern has a higher major-crime index than 7 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Trent Woods (2 mi), is 82% below New Bern's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in New Bern
What are the most common crimes in New Bern?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 389 a year), burglary (about 103 a year) and aggravated assault (about 75 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 3.7 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. New Bern's figures add up its 25 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- New Bern's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 44.3% 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: 37,516. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in New Bern, North Carolina." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nc/new-bern
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Trent Woods2 mi19
- James City5 mi94
- Havelock18 mi71
- Newport24 mi77
- Piney Green28 mi64
- Half Moon29 mi52
- River Road29 mi52
- Emerald Isle30 mi117