Maggie Valley, NC carries a PlainCrime D safety grade with violent crime 30% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Maggie Valley, NC shows violent crime at 456.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 5,082.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 30% 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
456.9/100K violent
5082.8/100K property
+30% vs U.S.
The verdict
Maggie Valley earns a D safety grade: violent crime runs 30% above the U.S. average, placing it among the highest-crime cities in the country.
D
PlainCrime safety grade
+30%
violent crime vs. U.S. average
16th
percentile of 7,769 U.S. cities
5,082.8
property crimes per 100K
Based on 8 reported violent incidents in a population of 1,751. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Maggie Valley, NC
Small-count caution
The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable
Maggie Valley reported 8 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 1,751. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Comparable rate records
Maggie Valley's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the North Carolina cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Maggie Valley's 456.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Bessemer City (457.3), High Point (454.8), Greenville (453.4), 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.
Position in the state cohort
Maggie Valley sits mid-pack among comparable North Carolina cities
At 456.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Maggie Valley ranks 59 of 206 — above 147 of the 205 other North Carolina cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +73.4% 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 61.8% of reported property offenses in Maggie Valley, against a cohort median of 74.6%. The remainder is burglary (21) and motor vehicle theft (13). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 8.2% of the 97 Part I offenses reported in Maggie Valley for 2024, against a median of 11.6% across comparable North Carolina cities — a gap of 3.3 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 481.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 456.9 in 2024 (-5.0%). The highest observed value was 698.5 in 2023 and the lowest 456.9 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Maggie Valley'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.
Based on 8 reported violent incidents in a population of 1,751. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
On a small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-34.6%
698.5 → 456.9/100K
Property Crime Rate
+1.5%
5005.8 → 5082.8/100K
Property offenses lead Maggie Valley's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs NC
Property Crime
89
5082.8
1711
1929.5
Larceny-Theft
55
3141.1
-
-
Burglary
21
1199.3
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
13
742.4
-
-
Arson
1
57.1
-
-
Violent Crime
8
456.9
352
364.6
Aggravated Assault
6
342.7
-
-
Murder
2
114.2
-
-
Rape
0
0
-
-
Robbery
0
0
-
-
Maggie Valley Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Maggie Valley property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Property crime rate (2024)
5,082.8/100K↑1.5%vs 2023
Maggie Valley violent crime rate trend
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
Violent crime rate (2024)
456.9/100K↓34.6%vs 2023
Year
Coverage
Population
Violent Rate
Property Rate
Total Crimes
2020
Comparable
1,247
481.2
6415.4
86
2021
Comparable
1,268
552.1
17034.7
223
2022
Comparable
1,702
470
4112.8
78
2023
Comparable
1,718
698.5
5005.8
98
2024
Comparable
1,751
456.9
5082.8
97
How Maggie Valley sits among NC peers
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Reporting Agency
Maggie Valley Police Department NIBRS-participating
Maggie Valley's crime figures on this page originate from Maggie Valley Police Department's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
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 Maggie Valley in population. Their populations run from 1,467 to 1,853, against 1,751 here. Or use our
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These North Carolina cities report the closest violent-crime rates to Maggie Valley's 456.9/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).
Maggie Valley has a violent crime rate of 456.9 per 100,000 residents and a property crime rate of 5082.8 per 100,000, based on 2024 FBI UCR data.
Is Maggie Valley, NC safe? ▼
Maggie Valley receives a safety grade of D (Below Average), with a safety score of 25/100. The violent crime rate is 30% above the national average and 25% above the North Carolina average.
What is the population of Maggie Valley, NC? ▼
The reporting population for Maggie Valley is 1,751 as of 2024.
How many crimes were reported in Maggie Valley? ▼
In 2024, Maggie Valley reported 8 violent crimes and 89 property crimes, for a total of 97 reported offenses.
How do Maggie Valley's reported offenses compare with its population? ▼
In 2024, Maggie Valley recorded about one reported offense per 18 residents and one reported violent offense per 219 residents. These ratios count reported offenses, not distinct victims, and are not a person's probability of victimization.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Maggie Valley? ▼
From 2023 to 2024, Maggie Valley's violent crime rate decreased by 34.6%, and the property crime rate increased by 1.5%.
What is the most common crime in Maggie Valley? ▼
The most common crime type in Maggie Valley is larceny-theft, accounting for 56.7% of all reported crimes (55 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Maggie Valley's FBI UCR Table 8 row (2024) is the only source for the rates above.
With a small population base, per-100,000 rates amplify sparse counts. Incomplete submissions are excluded from rankings. See FBI.gov UCR for the raw Table 8 file.
Disclaimer (small municipal): small-base rates are especially easy to misread. Informational only - not advice. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Maggie Valley, NC rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.