Fayetteville, NC has a F safety grade (7/100) with a violent crime rate of 660 per 100,000, 88% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Fayetteville, NC Crime Rate & Safety
At 209,945 residents, Fayetteville is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against NC and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Fayetteville, NC carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 88% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Fayetteville, NC shows violent crime at 660.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,094.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 88% 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
660.2/100K violent
3094.6/100K property
+88% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Fayetteville, NC
Comparable rate records
Fayetteville's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the North Carolina cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Fayetteville's 660.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Marshville (666.4), Monroe (652.9), Tarboro (668.5), Kings Mountain (647.6). 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
Fayetteville reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable North Carolina cities
At 660.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Fayetteville ranks 34 of 206 — above 172 of the 205 other North Carolina cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +150.6% 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 991.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 660.2 in 2024 (-33.4%). The highest observed value was 991.4 in 2020 and the lowest 660.2 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 17.6% of the 7,883 Part I offenses reported in Fayetteville for 2024, against a median of 11.4% across comparable North Carolina cities — a gap of 6.1 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 counts dominate Fayetteville'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.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Fayetteville's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 148.3 Census sq mi, Fayetteville logged 43.8 property and 9.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Fayetteville's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (63% of 7,883 offenses; mix index 4,308).
Violent offenses are 18% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (148.3 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-25.7%
888.4 → 660.2/100K
Property Crime Rate
-4.3%
3234.2 → 3094.6/100K
Property offenses lead Fayetteville's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs NC
Property Crime
6,497
3094.6
1711
1929.5
Larceny-Theft
4,932
2349.2
-
-
Burglary
813
387.2
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
752
358.2
-
-
Arson
56
26.7
-
-
Violent Crime
1,386
660.2
352
364.6
Aggravated Assault
1,079
513.9
-
-
Robbery
212
101
-
-
Rape
69
32.9
-
-
Murder
26
12.4
-
-
Fayetteville Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Fayetteville 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 averages
Fayetteville Police Department
Reporting agency for Fayetteville NIBRS-participating
Fayetteville Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Fayetteville's 7,883 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 Fayetteville in population. Their populations run from 95,219 to 304,306, against 209,945 here. Or use our
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Fayetteville at 660.2/100K violent and 3,094.6/100K property - matched below outside North Carolina (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Fayetteville reported 1,386 violent crimes and 6,497 property crimes, for a total of 7,883 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Fayetteville?
From 2023 to 2024, Fayetteville's violent crime rate decreased by 25.7%, and the property crime rate decreased by 4.3%.
What is the most common crime in Fayetteville?
The most common crime type in Fayetteville is larceny-theft, accounting for 62.6% of all reported crimes (4,932 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Fayetteville's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Fayetteville, NC rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.