Crime in Wadesboro, North Carolina
Major crime in Wadesboro is 3.6 times the U.S. rate per resident: 5.0 times for persons crimes and 3.3 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.3% 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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Burglary stands out most, at 8.2 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Wadesboro 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 Wadesboro
The middle half of Wadesboro residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 344 and 462; the typical (median) resident's is 355.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–1000.0%
- 100–20023.0%
- 200–40045.2%
- 400+31.8%
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 8.3% 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.
Wadesboro against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
18 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Wadesboro; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Wadesboro has a higher major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, East Rockingham (17 mi), is 24% below Wadesboro's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Wadesboro
What are the most common crimes in Wadesboro?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 98 a year), aggravated assault (about 79 a year) and burglary (about 76 a year). Compared with the U.S., burglary stands out most: 8.2 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. Wadesboro's figures add up its 5 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Wadesboro has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 100.0% 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: 5,658. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Wadesboro, North Carolina." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nc/wadesboro
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- East Rockingham17 mi273
- Marshville17 mi146
- Rockingham18 mi251
- Cheraw, SC20 mi287
- Hamlet21 mi216
- Unionville27 mi37
- Monroe28 mi131
- Albemarle28 mi161