Lumberton, NC is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 376% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Lumberton, NC shows violent crime at 1,676.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 9,943.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 376% 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
1676.5/100K violent
9943.9/100K property
+376% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Lumberton, NC
Position in the state cohort
Lumberton reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable North Carolina cities
At 1676.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Lumberton ranks 5 of 206 — above 201 of the 205 other North Carolina cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +536.3% 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
Lumberton's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the North Carolina cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Lumberton's 1676.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Henderson (1791.6), Plymouth (1861.8), Laurinburg (1894.1), Farmville (1376.7). 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 2022.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 1676.5 in 2024 (-17.1%). The highest observed value was 2400.0 in 2022 and the lowest 1676.5 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Lumberton'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.
Lumberton's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 18.2 Census sq mi, Lumberton logged 104.2 property and 17.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Lumberton's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (61% of 2,218 offenses; mix index 4,210).
Violent offenses are only 14% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (18.2 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Both rates shifted (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-16.9%
2018.2 → 1676.5/100K
Property Crime Rate
-17.4%
12034.7 → 9943.9/100K
Property offenses lead Lumberton's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs NC
Property Crime
1,898
9943.9
1711
1929.5
Larceny-Theft
1,355
7099.1
-
-
Burglary
388
2032.8
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
155
812.1
-
-
Arson
4
21
-
-
Violent Crime
320
1676.5
352
364.6
Aggravated Assault
239
1252.2
-
-
Robbery
57
298.6
-
-
Rape
14
73.3
-
-
Murder
10
52.4
-
-
Lumberton Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Lumberton 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
Lumberton Police Department
Reporting agency for Lumberton NIBRS-participating
Lumberton Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Lumberton's 2,218 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 Lumberton in population. Their populations run from 18,201 to 20,024, against 19,087 here. Or use our
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Lumberton at 1,676.5/100K violent and 9,943.9/100K property - matched below outside North Carolina (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Lumberton reported 320 violent crimes and 1,898 property crimes, for a total of 2,218 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Lumberton?
From 2023 to 2024, Lumberton's violent crime rate decreased by 16.9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 17.4%.
What is the most common crime in Lumberton?
The most common crime type in Lumberton is larceny-theft, accounting for 61.1% of all reported crimes (1,355 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Lumberton 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 Lumberton, NC rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.