Greenville, NC has a D safety grade (29/100) with a violent crime rate of 453 per 100,000, 29% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Greenville, NC Crime Rate & Safety
At 90,871 residents, Greenville 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.
Greenville, NC is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns a D PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 29% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Greenville, NC shows violent crime at 453.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,914 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 29% 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
453.4/100K violent
2914/100K property
+29% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Greenville, NC
Comparable rate records
Greenville's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the North Carolina cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Greenville's 453.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are High Point (454.8), Maggie Valley (456.9), Bessemer City (457.3), Windsor (444.0). 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
Greenville sits mid-pack among comparable North Carolina cities
At 453.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Greenville ranks 61 of 206 — above 145 of the 205 other North Carolina cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +72.1% 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 84.1% of reported property offenses in Greenville, against a cohort median of 74.5%. The remainder is burglary (247) and motor vehicle theft (174). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 439.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 453.4 in 2024 (+3.1%). The highest observed value was 571.8 in 2022 and the lowest 439.7 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Greenville'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.
Greenville's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 38.3 Census sq mi, Greenville logged 69.1 property and 10.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Greenville's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (73% of 3,060 offenses; mix index 5,519).
Violent offenses are only 13% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (38.3 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
-17.5%
549.7 → 453.4/100K
Property Crime Rate
-9.3%
3211.6 → 2914/100K
Property offenses lead Greenville's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs NC
Property Crime
2,648
2914
1711
1929.5
Larceny-Theft
2,227
2450.7
-
-
Burglary
247
271.8
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
174
191.5
-
-
Arson
13
14.3
-
-
Violent Crime
412
453.4
352
364.6
Aggravated Assault
337
370.9
-
-
Robbery
49
53.9
-
-
Rape
17
18.7
-
-
Murder
9
9.9
-
-
Greenville Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Greenville property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Greenville Police Department
Reporting agency for Greenville NIBRS-participating
Greenville Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Greenville's 3,060 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 Greenville in population. Their populations run from 60,725 to 117,629, against 90,871 here. Or use our
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Greenville at 453.4/100K violent and 2,914/100K property - matched below outside North Carolina (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Greenville reported 412 violent crimes and 2,648 property crimes, for a total of 3,060 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Greenville?
From 2023 to 2024, Greenville's violent crime rate decreased by 17.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 9.3%.
What is the most common crime in Greenville?
The most common crime type in Greenville is larceny-theft, accounting for 72.8% of all reported crimes (2,227 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Greenville'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 Greenville, NC rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.