Laurinburg, NC is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 438% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Laurinburg, NC shows violent crime at 1,894.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 5,042 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 438% 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
1894.1/100K violent
5042/100K property
+438% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Laurinburg, NC
Position in the state cohort
Laurinburg reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable North Carolina cities
At 1894.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Laurinburg ranks 2 of 206 — above 204 of the 205 other North Carolina cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +618.9% 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
Laurinburg's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the North Carolina cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Laurinburg's 1894.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Plymouth (1861.8), Henderson (1791.6), Wadesboro (2037.1), Lumberton (1676.5). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 27.3% of the 1,040 Part I offenses reported in Laurinburg for 2024, against a median of 11.4% across comparable North Carolina cities — a gap of 15.9 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-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 59.5% of reported property offenses in Laurinburg, against a cohort median of 74.6%. The remainder is burglary (244) and motor vehicle theft (62). 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 1824.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 1894.1 in 2024 (+3.8%). The highest observed value was 1894.1 in 2024 and the lowest 1559.3 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Laurinburg'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.
Laurinburg's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 12.5 Census sq mi, Laurinburg logged 60.3 property and 22.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Laurinburg leans on larceny-theft at 43% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,998.
Violent offenses are 27% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (12.5 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
+14.9%
4386.4 → 5042/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+7.6%
1759.9 → 1894.1/100K
Property offenses lead Laurinburg's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs NC
Property Crime
756
5042
1711
1929.5
Larceny-Theft
450
3001.2
-
-
Burglary
244
1627.3
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
62
413.5
-
-
Arson
6
40
-
-
Violent Crime
284
1894.1
352
364.6
Aggravated Assault
240
1600.6
-
-
Robbery
24
160.1
-
-
Rape
11
73.4
-
-
Murder
9
60
-
-
Laurinburg Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Laurinburg 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
Laurinburg Police Department
Reporting agency for Laurinburg NIBRS-participating
Laurinburg Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Laurinburg's 1,040 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 Laurinburg in population. Their populations run from 14,332 to 16,281, against 14,994 here. Or use our
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Laurinburg at 1,894.1/100K violent and 5,042/100K property - matched below outside North Carolina (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Laurinburg reported 284 violent crimes and 756 property crimes, for a total of 1,040 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Laurinburg?
From 2023 to 2024, Laurinburg's violent crime rate increased by 7.6%, and the property crime rate increased by 14.9%.
What is the most common crime in Laurinburg?
The most common crime type in Laurinburg is larceny-theft, accounting for 43.3% of all reported crimes (450 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Laurinburg 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 Laurinburg, NC rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.