Crime in Silver Lake, North Carolina
Major crime in Silver Lake is 21% below the U.S. rate per resident: 60% lower for persons crimes and 13% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 4.9% 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 3.1 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Silver Lake 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
Neighborhoods in Silver Lake
Silver Lake is made up of 3 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 69; the middle half of residents live where it is between 61 and 108.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–10068.9%
- 100–20031.1%
- 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 weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 4.9% 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.
Silver Lake against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
812 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Silver Lake; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Silver Lake 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, Myrtle Grove (2 mi), is 30% below Silver Lake's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Silver Lake
What are the most common crimes in Silver Lake?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 39 a year), theft from vehicle (about 34 a year) and burglary (about 21 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 3.1 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. Silver Lake's figures add up its 3 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Silver Lake's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 71.3% 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: 8,611. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Silver Lake, North Carolina." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nc/silver-lake
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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