High Point, NC has a D safety grade (33/100) with a violent crime rate of 455 per 100,000, 29% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
High Point, NC Crime Rate & Safety
At 117,629 residents, High Point 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.
High Point, NC carries a PlainCrime D safety grade with violent crime 29% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, High Point, NC shows violent crime at 454.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,456 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
454.8/100K violent
2456/100K property
+29% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for High Point, NC
Comparable rate records
High Point's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the North Carolina cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to High Point's 454.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Greenville (453.4), 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 691.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 454.8 in 2024 (-34.2%). The highest observed value was 691.1 in 2020 and the lowest 449.4 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
High Point sits mid-pack among comparable North Carolina cities
At 454.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, High Point ranks 60 of 206 — above 146 of the 205 other North Carolina cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +72.6% 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.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 61.5% of reported property offenses in High Point, against a cohort median of 74.6%. The remainder is burglary (404) and motor vehicle theft (708). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 15.6% of the 3,424 Part I offenses reported in High Point for 2024, against a median of 11.4% 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 High Point'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.
High Point's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 57.4 Census sq mi, High Point logged 50.3 property and 9.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
High Point leans on larceny-theft at 52% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,423.
Violent offenses are 16% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (57.4 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
-4.7%
2576 → 2456/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+1.2%
449.4 → 454.8/100K
Property offenses lead High Point's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
2,889
2456
1711
Larceny-Theft
1,777
1510.7
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
708
601.9
-
Burglary
404
343.5
-
Arson
40
34
-
Violent Crime
535
454.8
352
Aggravated Assault
425
361.3
-
Robbery
92
78.2
-
Rape
15
12.8
-
Murder
3
2.6
-
High Point Crime Trend (2020-2024)
High Point 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
High Point Police Department
Reporting agency for High Point NIBRS-participating
High Point Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind High Point's 3,424 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 High Point in population. Their populations run from 60,906 to 125,101, against 117,629 here. Or use our
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High Point at 454.8/100K violent and 2,456/100K property - matched below outside North Carolina (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, High Point reported 535 violent crimes and 2,889 property crimes, for a total of 3,424 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in High Point?
From 2023 to 2024, High Point's violent crime rate increased by 1.2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 4.7%.
What is the most common crime in High Point?
The most common crime type in High Point is larceny-theft, accounting for 51.9% of all reported crimes (1,777 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: High Point'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 High Point, NC rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.