Crime in Raleigh, North Carolina
Major crime in Raleigh is 48% above the U.S. rate per resident: 23% higher for persons crimes and 1.5 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 5.7% 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 2.9 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Raleigh 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 Raleigh
The middle half of Raleigh residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 53 and 163; the typical (median) resident's is 89. The citywide figure (148) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5022.9%
- 50–10032.2%
- 100–20025.7%
- 200–40012.7%
- 400+6.6%
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 5.7% 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.
Raleigh against U.S. places with 500,000 to 1 million residents
21 of the 25 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Raleigh; the middle of the group is 190. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Raleigh 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, Knightdale (8 mi), is 42% below Raleigh's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Raleigh
What are the most common crimes in Raleigh?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 3,132 a year), other larceny (about 2,928 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 2,693 a year). Compared with the U.S., weapons violations stands out most: 2.9 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. Raleigh's figures add up its 275 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Raleigh's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 62.7% 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: 526,475. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Raleigh, North Carolina." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nc/raleigh
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Knightdale8 mi86
- Garner10 mi180
- Rolesville11 mi25
- Cary11 mi49
- Wake Forest11 mi51
- Morrisville12 mi138
- Wendell14 mi51
- Apex16 mi44