Kannapolis, NC has a B safety grade (68/100) with a violent crime rate of 168 per 100,000, 52% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Kannapolis, NC Crime Rate & Safety
At 60,725 residents, Kannapolis 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.
Kannapolis, NC carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 52% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Kannapolis, NC shows violent crime at 168 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,785.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 52% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
B safety grade
168/100K violent
1785.1/100K property
-52% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Kannapolis, NC
Comparable rate records
Kannapolis's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the North Carolina cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Kannapolis's 168.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Clayton (168.3), Jonesville (171.5), Chapel Hill (172.1), Troutman (172.5). 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 246.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 168.0 in 2024 (-32.0%). The highest observed value was 265.8 in 2021 and the lowest 168.0 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
Kannapolis sits mid-pack among comparable North Carolina cities
At 168.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Kannapolis ranks 139 of 206 — above 67 of the 205 other North Carolina cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -41.1% against the cohort median of 285.1. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Property counts dominate Kannapolis'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.
Kannapolis's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 34.9 Census sq mi, Kannapolis logged 31 property and 2.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Kannapolis's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (70% of 1,186 offenses; mix index 5,159).
Violent offenses are only 9% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (34.9 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
-25.9%
226.6 → 168/100K
Property Crime Rate
-10.5%
1993.7 → 1785.1/100K
Property offenses lead Kannapolis's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs NC
Property Crime
1,084
1785.1
1929.5
Larceny-Theft
830
1366.8
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
132
217.4
-
Burglary
122
200.9
-
Arson
3
4.9
-
Violent Crime
102
168
364.6
Aggravated Assault
62
102.1
-
Rape
20
32.9
-
Robbery
14
23.1
-
Murder
6
9.9
-
Kannapolis Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Kannapolis 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
Kannapolis Police Department
Reporting agency for Kannapolis NIBRS-participating
Kannapolis Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Kannapolis's 1,186 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 Kannapolis in population. Their populations run from 47,436 to 65,752, against 60,725 here. Or use our
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Kannapolis at 168/100K violent and 1,785.1/100K property - matched below outside North Carolina (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Kannapolis reported 102 violent crimes and 1,084 property crimes, for a total of 1,186 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Kannapolis?
From 2023 to 2024, Kannapolis's violent crime rate decreased by 25.9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 10.5%.
What is the most common crime in Kannapolis?
The most common crime type in Kannapolis is larceny-theft, accounting for 70.0% of all reported crimes (830 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Kannapolis'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 Kannapolis, NC rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.