Garner, NC has a D safety grade (35/100) with a violent crime rate of 357 per 100,000, 1% above the national average.

FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city

Garner, NC Crime Rate & Safety

Garner (36,720 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then NC and national benchmarks.

Data updated 2026-09-05

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D
Safety grade
4,507.1
Property / 100K
356.8
Violent / 100K
37K
Population

Garner, NC is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a D PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 1% above the U.S. average

According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Garner, NC shows violent crime at 356.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 4,507.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 1% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade D from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.

  • D safety grade
  • 356.8/100K violent
  • 4507.1/100K property
  • +1% vs U.S.

What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Garner, NC

Comparable rate records

Garner's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the North Carolina cohort

The nearest comparable 2024 records to Garner's 356.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Wilkesboro (356.0), Louisburg (359.3), Lincolnton (360.6), Morehead City (361.4). 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.

2020–2024 direction

The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher

Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 268.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 356.8 in 2024 (+33.1%). The highest observed value was 553.2 in 2023 and the lowest 268.0 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.

Position in the state cohort

Garner sits mid-pack among comparable North Carolina cities

At 356.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Garner ranks 79 of 206 — above 127 of the 205 other North Carolina cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +35.4% 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.

Property-offense composition

Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort

Larceny-theft is 84.4% of reported property offenses in Garner, against a cohort median of 74.5%. The remainder is burglary (124) and motor vehicle theft (134). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.

Offense mix

The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort

Violent offenses are 7.3% of the 1,786 Part I offenses reported in Garner for 2024, against a median of 11.6% across comparable North Carolina cities — a gap of 4.2 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 Garner'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.

Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.

Garner's 2024 municipal footprint

Across 19.7 Census sq mi, Garner logged 83.9 property and 6.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.

Garner's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (78% of 1,786 offenses; mix index 6,257).

Violent offenses are only 7% of the municipal total - a property-led book.

Garner offense mix (2024)

Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (19.7 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
-35.5%
553.2 → 356.8/100K
Property Crime Rate
-3%
4646 → 4507.1/100K

Property offenses lead Garner's 2024 record

Offense Count Rate /100K
Property Crime 1,655 4507.1
Larceny-Theft 1,397 3804.5
Motor Vehicle Theft 134 364.9
Burglary 124 337.7
Arson 5 13.6
Violent Crime 131 356.8
Aggravated Assault 102 277.8
Robbery 17 46.3
Rape 11 30
Murder 1 2.7

Garner Crime Trend (2020-2024)

Garner property crime rate trend

Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR

Property crime rate (2024)
4,507.1/100K 3% vs 2023
2,5003,0003,5004,0004,5005,000 20202021202220232024 4,507

Garner violent crime rate trend

Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR

Violent crime rate (2024)
356.8/100K 35.5% vs 2023
200300400500600 20202021202220232024 357
Year Coverage Population Violent Rate Property Rate
2020 Comparable 32,093 268 3063
2021 Comparable 32,889 468.2 3113.5
2022 Comparable 32,577 466.6 3502.5
2023 Comparable 34,890 553.2 4646
2024 Comparable 36,720 356.8 4507.1

How Garner sits among NC peers

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Garner vs. similar-size NC cities, violent vs. property crime. X axis violent crime per 100K, Y axis property crime per 100K, split by the national averages. 9 cities; the anchor is ringed. Garner vs. similar-size NC cities, violent vs. property crime 87 1,163 Violent crime per 100K → 885 6,333 Property crime per 100K → Garner SAFEST HIGHEST CRIME PROPERTY-HEAVY VIOLENT-HEAVY Safety grade A / B C D / F
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages

Garner Police Department

Reporting agency for Garner NIBRS-participating

Garner Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Garner's 1,786 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 Garner in population. Their populations run from 31,494 to 38,903, against 36,720 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.

Garner's closest NC violent-rate matches

Garner sits at 356.8/100K violent (grade D); the North Carolina cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.

Out-of-state peers for Garner

Garner at 356.8/100K violent and 4,507.1/100K property - matched below outside North Carolina (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).

More about Garner's 2024 record

How many crimes were reported in Garner?

In 2024, Garner reported 131 violent crimes and 1,655 property crimes, for a total of 1,786 reported offenses.

Is crime increasing or decreasing in Garner?

From 2023 to 2024, Garner's violent crime rate decreased by 35.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 3%.

What is the most common crime in Garner?

The most common crime type in Garner is larceny-theft, accounting for 78.2% of all reported crimes (1,397 incidents in 2024).

Mid-size read: Garner figures are FBI UCR CIUS Table 8 (vintage 2024), population-adjusted per 100,000.

Denominators are the reporting-year population on the municipal row. Incomplete years are dropped from rankings. Confirm at FBI Crime Data Explorer and Census.gov QuickFacts.

Disclaimer (mid-size municipal): figures are informational, not advice. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is the source. Consult a professional before decisions.

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Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Garner, NC rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.

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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Garner is scored in the mid-size municipal band (36,720 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.