Morrisville, NC carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 72% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Morrisville, NC shows violent crime at 99 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,433.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 72% 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
99/100K violent
2433.8/100K property
-72% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Morrisville, NC
Comparable rate records
Morrisville's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the North Carolina cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Morrisville's 99.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Mint Hill (99.1), Ocean Isle Beach (98.1), Pittsboro (101.3), Leland (96.5). 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.
Position in the state cohort
Morrisville reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable North Carolina cities
At 99.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Morrisville ranks 164 of 206 — above 42 of the 205 other North Carolina cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -65.3% 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 3.9% of the 819 Part I offenses reported in Morrisville for 2024, against a median of 11.6% across comparable North Carolina cities — a gap of 7.7 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 higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 85.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 99.0 in 2024 (+15.2%). The highest observed value was 122.7 in 2022 and the lowest 85.9 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 86.3% of reported property offenses in Morrisville, against a cohort median of 74.5%. The remainder is burglary (49) and motor vehicle theft (59). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Morrisville'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.
Morrisville's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 9.2 Census sq mi, Morrisville logged 85.8 property and 3.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Morrisville's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (83% of 819 offenses; mix index 6,968).
Violent offenses are only 4% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (9.2 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-18.1%
120.9 → 99/100K
Property Crime Rate
-9.5%
2690.7 → 2433.8/100K
Property offenses lead Morrisville's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
787
2433.8
1711
Larceny-Theft
679
2099.8
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
59
182.5
-
Burglary
49
151.5
-
Arson
1
3.1
-
Violent Crime
32
99
352
Aggravated Assault
19
58.8
-
Robbery
10
30.9
-
Rape
2
6.2
-
Murder
1
3.1
-
Morrisville Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Morrisville 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
Morrisville Police Department
Reporting agency for Morrisville NIBRS-participating
Morrisville Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Morrisville's 819 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 Morrisville in population. Their populations run from 28,259 to 33,699, against 32,336 here. Or use our
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Morrisville at 99/100K violent and 2,433.8/100K property - matched below outside North Carolina (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Morrisville reported 32 violent crimes and 787 property crimes, for a total of 819 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Morrisville?
From 2023 to 2024, Morrisville's violent crime rate decreased by 18.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 9.5%.
What is the most common crime in Morrisville?
The most common crime type in Morrisville is larceny-theft, accounting for 82.9% of all reported crimes (679 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Morrisville 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 Morrisville, NC rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.