Crime in Pleasant Garden, North Carolina
Major crime in Pleasant Garden is 61% below the U.S. rate per resident: 42% lower for persons crimes and 66% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 11.5% 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 1.7 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Pleasant Garden for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Social disorder
How crime varies across Pleasant Garden
The middle half of Pleasant Garden residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 23 and 58; the typical (median) resident's is 33.
- 0–5065.1%
- 50–10034.9%
- 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 Friday and Saturday nights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 11.5% 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.
Pleasant Garden against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
1,659 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Pleasant Garden; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Pleasant Garden has a higher major-crime index than 1 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Greensboro (9 mi), is 4.5 times Pleasant Garden's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Pleasant Garden
What are the most common crimes in Pleasant Garden?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are aggravated assault (about 9 a year), burglary (about 9 a year) and other larceny (about 9 a year). Compared with the U.S., weapons violations stands out most: 1.7 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. Pleasant Garden's figures add up its 5 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Pleasant Garden's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 21.5% 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: 6,166. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Pleasant Garden, North Carolina." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nc/pleasant-garden
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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