CrimeMetric

Crime in Rockingham, North Carolina

Major crime in Rockingham is 2.5 times the U.S. rate per resident: 2.1 times for persons crimes and 2.6 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 9.0% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
251
2.5 times the U.S. rate
2.2 times the North Carolina rate
down 9.0% in a year
Persons crimes
208
2.1 times the U.S. rate
2.1 times the North Carolina rate
down 4.2% in a year
Property crimes
261
2.6 times the U.S. rate
2.3 times the North Carolina rate
down 9.8% in a year
Social disorder
128
28% above the U.S. rate
about the North Carolina rate
down 8.2% 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

Burglary stands out most, at 4.8 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Rockingham 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 Rockingham

The middle half of Rockingham residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 104 and 275; the typical (median) resident's is 195. The citywide figure (251) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Rockingham, 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. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–500.0%
  • 50–10014.2%
  • 100–20043.0%
  • 200–40022.5%
  • 400+20.3%

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 weekday daytimes

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

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm321
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am191
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm238
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am196
Trend and outlook

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

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-9.0%NC -9.0%-19.3%NC -9.2%
Persons crimes-4.2%NC -4.5%-5.8%NC +2.7%
Property crimes-9.8%NC -9.9%-21.6%NC -11.5%
Social disorder-8.2%NC -6.8%-14.0%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

Rockingham against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents

60 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Rockingham; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:

Rockingham, NC9,004251
Winslow, AZ8,999236
Jennings, LA8,995229
Augusta, KS9,003111
Aiea, HI8,99764
Pitman, NJ8,99431

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

Nearby places

Rockingham 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, East Rockingham (2 mi), is 9% above Rockingham's rate.

Wadesboro18 mi357
Laurinburg20 mi302
Cheraw, SC19 mi287
Rockingham251
Hamlet4 mi216
Aberdeen23 mi150
Pinehurst24 mi27

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

Questions about crime in Rockingham

What are the most common crimes in Rockingham?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 194 a year), burglary (about 71 a year) and aggravated assault (about 48 a year). Compared with the U.S., burglary stands out most: 4.8 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. Rockingham's figures add up its 9 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Rockingham has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
  • 0.0% 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: 9,004. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100