Crime in Wake Forest, North Carolina
Major crime in Wake Forest is 49% below the U.S. rate per resident: 69% lower for persons crimes and 44% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 23.2% 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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Every crime type in Wake Forest is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Wake Forest 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 Wake Forest
The middle half of Wake Forest residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 14 and 61; the typical (median) resident's is 35. The citywide figure (51) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5068.0%
- 50–10019.9%
- 100–2008.2%
- 200–4003.9%
- 400+0.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest in the daytime
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 23.2% 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.
Wake Forest against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
460 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Wake Forest; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Wake Forest has a higher major-crime index than 2 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Rolesville (3 mi), is 51% below Wake Forest's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Wake Forest
What are the most common crimes in Wake Forest?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 290 a year), theft from vehicle (about 74 a year) and shoplifting (about 47 a year). Compared with the U.S., weapons violations stands out most: about 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. Wake Forest's figures add up its 26 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Wake Forest's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 12.5% 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: 61,842. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Wake Forest, North Carolina." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nc/wake-forest
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Rolesville3 mi25
- Raleigh11 mi148
- Knightdale12 mi86
- Zebulon13 mi111
- Creedmoor14 mi83
- Wendell14 mi51
- Lake Royale17 mi38
- Butner17 mi73