CrimeMetric

Crime in St. Stephens, North Carolina

Major crime in St. Stephens is 58% below the U.S. rate per resident: 61% lower for persons crimes and 57% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 16.8% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
42
58% below the U.S. rate
62% below the North Carolina rate
down 16.8% in a year
Persons crimes
39
61% below the U.S. rate
61% below the North Carolina rate
down 6.3% in a year
Property crimes
43
57% below the U.S. rate
63% below the North Carolina rate
down 18.6% in a year
Social disorder
53
47% below the U.S. rate
57% below the North Carolina rate
down 16.2% 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

Every crime type in St. Stephens is near or below the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in St. Stephens 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 St. Stephens

The middle half of St. Stephens residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 24 and 46; the typical (median) resident's is 31. The citywide figure (42) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of St. Stephens, 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.
  • 0–5085.7%
  • 50–1000.0%
  • 100–20014.3%
  • 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.

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 6pm46
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am40
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm42
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am37
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 16.8% in a year; across North Carolina it fell 9.0%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-16.8%NC -9.0%-10.5%NC -9.2%
Persons crimes-6.3%NC -4.5%+4.0%NC +2.7%
Property crimes-18.6%NC -9.9%-13.4%NC -11.5%
Social disorder-16.2%NC -6.8%-5.4%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

St. Stephens against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents

1,680 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than St. Stephens; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:

Kapaa, HI10,225109
Dayton, TN10,23047
St. Stephens, NC10,22242

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

Nearby places

St. Stephens has a lower major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Hickory (3 mi), is 3.5 times St. Stephens's rate.

Long View6 mi187
Newton7 mi164
Hickory3 mi148
Conover4 mi133
Valdese16 mi118
Maiden13 mi63
Sawmills13 mi55
St. Stephens42

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

Questions about crime in St. Stephens

What are the most common crimes in St. Stephens?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 24 a year), theft from vehicle (about 12 a year) and shoplifting (about 11 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 16% below 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. St. Stephens's figures add up its 5 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • St. Stephens 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: 10,222. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in St. Stephens, North Carolina." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nc/st-stephens

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100