Beulaville, NC is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 49% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Beulaville, NC shows violent crime at 524 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,231.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 49% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
F safety grade
524/100K violent
3231.4/100K property
+49% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Beulaville, NC
Small-count caution
The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable
Beulaville reported 6 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 1,145. 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
Beulaville's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the North Carolina cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Beulaville's 524.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Forest City (527.7), Washington (520.0), Stantonsburg (528.4), Sylva (519.1). 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.
Position in the state cohort
Beulaville reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable North Carolina cities
At 524.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Beulaville ranks 48 of 206 — above 158 of the 205 other North Carolina cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +98.9% against the cohort median of 263.5. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 541.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 524.0 in 2024 (-3.3%). The highest observed value was 619.5 in 2023 and the lowest 0.0 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Beulaville'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 6 reported violent incidents in a population of 1,145. 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.
Beulaville's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 1.5 Census sq mi, Beulaville logged 23.9 property and 3.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Beulaville's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (70% of 43 offenses; mix index 5,165).
Violent offenses are only 14% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (1.5 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
-29.8%
4601.8 → 3231.4/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-15.4%
619.5 → 524/100K
Property offenses lead Beulaville's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs NC
Property Crime
37
3231.4
1711
1929.5
Larceny-Theft
30
2620.1
-
-
Burglary
6
524
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
1
87.3
-
-
Arson
0
0
-
-
Violent Crime
6
524
352
364.6
Aggravated Assault
4
349.3
-
-
Rape
1
87.3
-
-
Robbery
1
87.3
-
-
Murder
0
0
-
-
Beulaville Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Beulaville property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averagesRead the chart as a list
Beulaville: 524 violent, 3231 property per 100,000 (grade F)
Banner Elk: 0 violent, 173 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Highlands: 0 violent, 1693 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Columbus: 0 violent, 1533 property per 100,000 (grade A)
North Topsail Beach: 0 violent, 1468 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Ocean Isle Beach: 98 violent, 3042 property per 100,000 (grade B)
West Jefferson: 75 violent, 4478 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Holden Beach: 106 violent, 1482 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Middlesex: 0 violent, 1164 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Beulaville Police Department
Reporting agency for Beulaville NIBRS-participating
Beulaville Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Beulaville's 43 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.
Similar-Size Cities in North Carolina
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the North Carolina cities closest to Beulaville in population. Their populations run from 945 to 1,340, against 1,145 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Beulaville reported 6 violent crimes and 37 property crimes, for a total of 43 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Beulaville?
From 2023 to 2024, Beulaville's violent crime rate decreased by 15.4%, and the property crime rate decreased by 29.8%.
What is the most common crime in Beulaville?
The most common crime type in Beulaville is larceny-theft, accounting for 69.8% of all reported crimes (30 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Beulaville'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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Beulaville, NC rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.