Crime in Southern Pines, North Carolina
Major crime in Southern Pines is 14% above the U.S. rate per resident: about the same for persons crimes and 17% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.2% 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 3.2 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Southern Pines 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 Southern Pines
The middle half of Southern Pines residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 46 and 111; the typical (median) resident's is 84. The citywide figure (114) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5029.4%
- 50–10042.7%
- 100–20010.8%
- 200–40012.1%
- 400+5.0%
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 8.2% 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.
Southern Pines against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
525 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Southern Pines; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Southern Pines has a higher major-crime index than 6 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Aberdeen (4 mi), is 32% above Southern Pines's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Southern Pines
What are the most common crimes in Southern Pines?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 92 a year), other larceny (about 89 a year) and burglary (about 46 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 3.2 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. Southern Pines's figures add up its 13 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Southern Pines has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 23.7% 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: 17,491. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Southern Pines, North Carolina." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nc/southern-pines
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Aberdeen4 mi150
- Pinehurst4 mi27
- Whispering Pines5 mi21
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- Seven Lakes12 mi32
- Raeford17 mi92
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