Mooresville, NC has a B safety grade (60/100) with a violent crime rate of 217 per 100,000, 38% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Mooresville, NC Crime Rate & Safety
At 54,823 residents, Mooresville 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.
Mooresville, NC is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a B PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 38% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Mooresville, NC shows violent crime at 217.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,152.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 38% 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
217.1/100K violent
2152.4/100K property
-38% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Mooresville, NC
Comparable rate records
Mooresville's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the North Carolina cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Mooresville's 217.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Coats (217.4), Kill Devil Hills (217.5), Biscoe (215.9), Cleveland (225.2). 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 88.0% of reported property offenses in Mooresville, against a cohort median of 74.5%. The remainder is burglary (76) and motor vehicle theft (66). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
Mooresville sits mid-pack among comparable North Carolina cities
At 217.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Mooresville ranks 122 of 206 — above 84 of the 205 other North Carolina cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -23.9% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 211.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 217.1 in 2024 (+2.6%). The highest observed value was 308.2 in 2021 and the lowest 180.1 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Mooresville'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.
Mooresville's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 27.4 Census sq mi, Mooresville logged 43.1 property and 4.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Mooresville's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (80% of 1,299 offenses; mix index 6,484).
Violent offenses are only 9% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (27.4 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
+7.1%
202.7 → 217.1/100K
Property Crime Rate
-1.9%
2194.7 → 2152.4/100K
Property offenses lead Mooresville's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
1,180
2152.4
1711
Larceny-Theft
1,038
1893.4
-
Burglary
76
138.6
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
66
120.4
-
Arson
2
3.6
-
Violent Crime
119
217.1
352
Aggravated Assault
74
135
-
Rape
31
56.5
-
Robbery
12
21.9
-
Murder
2
3.6
-
Mooresville Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Mooresville 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
Mooresville Police Department
Reporting agency for Mooresville NIBRS-participating
Mooresville Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Mooresville's 1,299 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 Mooresville in population. Their populations run from 44,682 to 63,906, against 54,823 here. Or use our
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Mooresville at 217.1/100K violent and 2,152.4/100K property - matched below outside North Carolina (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Mooresville reported 119 violent crimes and 1,180 property crimes, for a total of 1,299 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Mooresville?
From 2023 to 2024, Mooresville's violent crime rate increased by 7.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 1.9%.
What is the most common crime in Mooresville?
The most common crime type in Mooresville is larceny-theft, accounting for 79.9% of all reported crimes (1,038 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Mooresville'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 Mooresville, NC rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.