Crime in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina
Major crime in Wrightsville Beach is 1.6 times the U.S. rate per resident: 16% lower for persons crimes and 1.8 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.9% 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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Other larceny stands out most, at 3.3 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Wrightsville Beach 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
Neighborhoods in Wrightsville Beach
Wrightsville Beach is made up of 3 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 149.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–1000.0%
- 100–20076.0%
- 200–40024.0%
- 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 weekend daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 7.9% 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.
Wrightsville Beach against U.S. places with 2,000 to 5,000 residents
146 of the 1,761 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Wrightsville Beach; the middle of the group is 58. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Wrightsville Beach has a higher major-crime index than 6 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Wilmington (5 mi), is 21% above Wrightsville Beach's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Wrightsville Beach
What are the most common crimes in Wrightsville Beach?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 45 a year), burglary (about 11 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 8 a year). Compared with the U.S., other larceny stands out most: 3.3 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. Wrightsville Beach's figures add up its 3 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Wrightsville Beach's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 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: 2,705. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nc/wrightsville-beach
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