Crime in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Major crime in Winston-Salem is 1.9 times the U.S. rate per resident: 2.3 times for persons crimes and 1.8 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 12.2% 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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Weapons violations stand out most, at 6.7 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Winston-Salem 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 Winston-Salem
The middle half of Winston-Salem residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 74 and 235; the typical (median) resident's is 118. The citywide figure (190) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–508.6%
- 50–10034.5%
- 100–20023.6%
- 200–40024.1%
- 400+9.2%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest at night
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 12.2% 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.
Winston-Salem against U.S. places with 250,000 to 500,000 residents
14 of the 53 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Winston-Salem; the middle of the group is 142. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Winston-Salem 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, Clemmons (8 mi), is 45% below Winston-Salem's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Winston-Salem
What are the most common crimes in Winston-Salem?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 1,731 a year), aggravated assault (about 1,584 a year) and shoplifting (about 1,472 a year). Compared with the U.S., weapons violations stands out most: 6.7 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. Winston-Salem's figures add up its 172 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Winston-Salem's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 94.0% 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: 263,337. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Winston-Salem, North Carolina." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nc/winston-salem
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Clemmons8 mi104
- Lewisville9 mi52
- Midway9 mi44
- Kernersville10 mi172
- King14 mi51
- Oak Ridge16 mi30
- High Point17 mi129
- Thomasville18 mi99