Knightdale, NC is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 45% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Knightdale, NC shows violent crime at 194.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,923.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 45% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
C safety grade
194.6/100K violent
2923.6/100K property
-45% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Knightdale, NC
Comparable rate records
Knightdale's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the North Carolina cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Knightdale's 194.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Burgaw (198.4), Granite Falls (203.7), Snow Hill (204.5), Matthews (184.6). 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 261.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 194.6 in 2024 (-25.6%). The highest observed value was 303.1 in 2023 and the lowest 194.6 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
Knightdale sits mid-pack among comparable North Carolina cities
At 194.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Knightdale ranks 129 of 206 — above 77 of the 205 other North Carolina cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -31.8% 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.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 6.2% of the 641 Part I offenses reported in Knightdale for 2024, against a median of 11.6% across comparable North Carolina cities — a gap of 5.3 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 Knightdale'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.
Knightdale's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 9.6 Census sq mi, Knightdale logged 62.4 property and 4.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Knightdale's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (77% of 641 offenses; mix index 6,057).
Violent offenses are only 6% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (9.6 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-35.8%
303.1 → 194.6/100K
Property Crime Rate
+6.2%
2753.4 → 2923.6/100K
Property offenses lead Knightdale's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs NC
Property Crime
601
2923.6
1711
1929.5
Larceny-Theft
491
2388.5
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
74
360
-
-
Burglary
36
175.1
-
-
Arson
1
4.9
-
-
Violent Crime
40
194.6
352
364.6
Aggravated Assault
31
150.8
-
-
Robbery
5
24.3
-
-
Rape
4
19.5
-
-
Murder
0
0
-
-
Knightdale Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Knightdale 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
Knightdale Police Department
Reporting agency for Knightdale NIBRS-participating
Knightdale Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Knightdale's 641 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 Knightdale in population. Their populations run from 19,064 to 22,028, against 20,557 here. Or use our
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Knightdale at 194.6/100K violent and 2,923.6/100K property - matched below outside North Carolina (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Knightdale reported 40 violent crimes and 601 property crimes, for a total of 641 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Knightdale?
From 2023 to 2024, Knightdale's violent crime rate decreased by 35.8%, and the property crime rate increased by 6.2%.
What is the most common crime in Knightdale?
The most common crime type in Knightdale is larceny-theft, accounting for 76.6% of all reported crimes (491 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Knightdale 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 Knightdale, NC rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.