Henderson, NC is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 409% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Henderson, NC shows violent crime at 1,791.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 5,800.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 409% 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
1791.6/100K violent
5800.8/100K property
+409% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Henderson, NC
Position in the state cohort
Henderson reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable North Carolina cities
At 1791.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Henderson ranks 4 of 206 — above 202 of the 205 other North Carolina cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +580.0% 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
Henderson's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the North Carolina cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Henderson's 1791.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Plymouth (1861.8), Laurinburg (1894.1), Lumberton (1676.5), Wadesboro (2037.1). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 23.6% of the 1,123 Part I offenses reported in Henderson for 2024, against a median of 11.4% across comparable North Carolina cities — a gap of 12.2 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 2032.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 1791.6 in 2024 (-11.8%). The highest observed value was 2032.2 in 2020 and the lowest 1619.4 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Henderson'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.
Henderson's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 8.6 Census sq mi, Henderson logged 99.5 property and 30.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Henderson's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (61% of 1,123 offenses; mix index 4,337).
Violent offenses are 24% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (8.6 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
+13.3%
5120.4 → 5800.8/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-5.6%
1897.2 → 1791.6/100K
Property offenses lead Henderson's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs NC
Property Crime
858
5800.8
1711
1929.5
Larceny-Theft
690
4665
-
-
Burglary
135
912.7
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
33
223.1
-
-
Arson
3
20.3
-
-
Violent Crime
265
1791.6
352
364.6
Aggravated Assault
225
1521.2
-
-
Robbery
29
196.1
-
-
Rape
7
47.3
-
-
Murder
4
27
-
-
Henderson Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Henderson 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
Henderson Police Department
Reporting agency for Henderson NIBRS-participating
Henderson Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Henderson's 1,123 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 Henderson in population. Their populations run from 13,479 to 15,672, against 14,791 here. Or use our
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Henderson at 1,791.6/100K violent and 5,800.8/100K property - matched below outside North Carolina (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Henderson reported 265 violent crimes and 858 property crimes, for a total of 1,123 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Henderson?
From 2023 to 2024, Henderson's violent crime rate decreased by 5.6%, and the property crime rate increased by 13.3%.
What is the most common crime in Henderson?
The most common crime type in Henderson is larceny-theft, accounting for 61.4% of all reported crimes (690 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Henderson 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Henderson, NC rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.