Crime in Wendell, North Carolina
Major crime in Wendell 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 9.0% 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 Wendell is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Wendell 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 Wendell
The middle half of Wendell residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 28 and 52; the typical (median) resident's is 46.
- 0–5056.6%
- 50–10028.3%
- 100–20015.1%
- 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.
Highest on weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 9.0% 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.
Wendell against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
703 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Wendell; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Wendell has a higher major-crime index than 3 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Archer Lodge (5 mi), is 21% below Wendell's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Wendell
What are the most common crimes in Wendell?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 100 a year), burglary (about 42 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 33 a year). Compared with the U.S., burglary 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. Wendell's figures add up its 5 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Wendell 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: 25,967. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Wendell, North Carolina." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nc/wendell
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Archer Lodge5 mi41
- Zebulon5 mi111
- Knightdale6 mi86
- Clayton10 mi55
- Rolesville11 mi25
- Garner14 mi180
- Raleigh14 mi148
- Wake Forest14 mi51