Beech Mountain, NC has a A safety grade (81/100) with a violent crime rate of 152 per 100,000, 57% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small municipal
Beech Mountain's UCR row covers a small municipal population (656). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to NC and U.S. averages.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Beech Mountain, NC is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 57% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Beech Mountain, NC shows violent crime at 152.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 457.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 57% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade A from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Small-count caution
Beech Mountain reported 1 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 656. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Beech Mountain's 152.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Four Oaks (152.4), Angier (151.9), China Grove (151.8), Emerald Isle (149.7). These are same-year agency submissions that pass the same completeness screen, not a claim that the cities have identical conditions. They make the cohort position above checkable against named records instead of a generic state average.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 25.0% of the 4 Part I offenses reported in Beech Mountain for 2024, against a median of 11.4% across comparable North Carolina cities — a gap of 13.6 points. Offense mix is shaped by which agencies report and how incidents are classified as well as by the underlying offenses, so it describes the reported record rather than a settled difference in conditions.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 100.0% of reported property offenses in Beech Mountain, against a cohort median of 74.5%. The remainder is burglary (0) and motor vehicle theft (0). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
At 152.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Beech Mountain ranks 142 of 206 — above 63 of the 205 other North Carolina cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -46.5% against the cohort median of 285.1. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Property counts dominate Beech Mountain's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; cities that fail the completeness test stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Based on 1 reported violent incidents in a population of 656. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
On a small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
Across 6.5 Census sq mi, Beech Mountain logged 0.5 property and 0.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Beech Mountain's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (75% of 4 offenses; mix index 6,250).
Violent offenses are 25% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Beech Mountain offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (6.5 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 3 | 457.3 |
| Larceny-Theft | 3 | 457.3 |
| Burglary | 0 | 0 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 1 | 152.4 |
| Aggravated Assault | 1 | 152.4 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 325 | 0 | 4923.1 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 320 | 1562.5 | 4062.5 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 678 | 590 | 1327.4 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 667 | 299.9 | 1049.5 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 656 | 152.4 | 457.3 |
Beech Mountain Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Beech Mountain's 4 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
This agency reports via NIBRS, the incident-based system that captures more detail per offense (multiple crimes per incident, victim/offender data) than the older summary counts.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the North Carolina cities closest to Beech Mountain in population. Their populations run from 397 to 890, against 656 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
In 2024, Beech Mountain reported 1 violent crimes and 3 property crimes, for a total of 4 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Beech Mountain's violent crime rate decreased by 49.2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 56.4%.
The most common crime type in Beech Mountain is larceny-theft, accounting for 75.0% of all reported crimes (3 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Beech Mountain's FBI UCR Table 8 row (2024) is the only source for the rates above.
With a small population base, per-100,000 rates amplify sparse counts. Incomplete submissions are excluded from rankings. See FBI.gov UCR for the raw Table 8 file.
Disclaimer (small municipal): small-base rates are especially easy to misread. Informational only - not advice. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Micro-municipal rate methodology for how Beech Mountain's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Beech Mountain, NC rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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