Crime in Waynesville, North Carolina
Major crime in Waynesville is 2.0 times the U.S. rate per resident: 32% higher for persons crimes and 2.1 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 6.7% 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 4.4 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Waynesville 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 Waynesville
The middle half of Waynesville residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 89 and 291; the typical (median) resident's is 118. The citywide figure (196) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–10029.9%
- 100–20033.2%
- 200–40026.9%
- 400+10.0%
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 6.7% 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.
Waynesville against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
120 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Waynesville; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Waynesville has a higher major-crime index than 7 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Lake Junaluska (3 mi), is 48% below Waynesville's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Waynesville
What are the most common crimes in Waynesville?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 133 a year), other larceny (about 102 a year) and aggravated assault (about 32 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 4.4 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. Waynesville's figures add up its 11 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Waynesville 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: 9,706. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Waynesville, North Carolina." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nc/waynesville
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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