Greensboro, NC has a F safety grade (0/100) with a violent crime rate of 924 per 100,000, 162% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · very large city
Greensboro, NC Crime Rate & Safety
At 304,306 residents, Greensboro is a very large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against NC and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Greensboro, NC carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 162% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Greensboro, NC shows violent crime at 923.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,383.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 162% 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
923.7/100K violent
3383.1/100K property
+162% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Greensboro, NC
Position in the state cohort
Greensboro reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable North Carolina cities
At 923.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Greensboro ranks 16 of 206 — above 190 of the 205 other North Carolina cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +250.6% 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.
Comparable rate records
Greensboro's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the North Carolina cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Greensboro's 923.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Pembroke (916.8), Dunn (903.5), Roanoke Rapids (896.7), Burlington (952.3). 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 make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 21.4% of the 13,106 Part I offenses reported in Greensboro for 2024, against a median of 11.4% across comparable North Carolina cities — a gap of 10.0 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window close to where it started
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 907.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 923.7 in 2024 (+1.8%). The highest observed value was 923.7 in 2024 and the lowest 821.5 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Greensboro'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 very large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Greensboro's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 134.3 Census sq mi, Greensboro logged 76.7 property and 20.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Greensboro leans on larceny-theft at 54% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,476.
Violent offenses are 21% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (134.3 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Both rates shifted (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
+11.5%
828.1 → 923.7/100K
Property Crime Rate
-10.4%
3774.3 → 3383.1/100K
Property offenses lead Greensboro's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs NC
Property Crime
10,295
3383.1
1711
1929.5
Larceny-Theft
7,024
2308.2
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
1,803
592.5
-
-
Burglary
1,468
482.4
-
-
Arson
90
29.6
-
-
Violent Crime
2,811
923.7
352
364.6
Aggravated Assault
2,160
709.8
-
-
Robbery
528
173.5
-
-
Rape
80
26.3
-
-
Murder
43
14.1
-
-
Greensboro Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Greensboro 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
Greensboro Police Department
Reporting agency for Greensboro NIBRS-participating
Greensboro Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Greensboro's 13,106 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 Greensboro in population. Their populations run from 111,922 to 488,085, against 304,306 here. Or use our
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Greensboro at 923.7/100K violent and 3,383.1/100K property - matched below outside North Carolina (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Greensboro reported 2,811 violent crimes and 10,295 property crimes, for a total of 13,106 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Greensboro?
From 2023 to 2024, Greensboro's violent crime rate increased by 11.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 10.4%.
What is the most common crime in Greensboro?
The most common crime type in Greensboro is larceny-theft, accounting for 53.6% of all reported crimes (7,024 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Greensboro'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 (very 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 Greensboro, NC rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.