Mount Airy, NC is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 11% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Mount Airy, NC shows violent crime at 311.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,436.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 11% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
C safety grade
311.6/100K violent
2436.3/100K property
-11% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Mount Airy, NC
Comparable rate records
Mount Airy's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the North Carolina cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Mount Airy's 311.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Saluda (309.6), Creedmoor (315.8), Mebane (305.9), Ranlo (318.3). 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.
2021–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 394.0 per 100,000 in 2021 to 311.6 in 2024 (-20.9%). The highest observed value was 394.0 in 2021 and the lowest 226.6 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
Mount Airy sits mid-pack among comparable North Carolina cities
At 311.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Mount Airy ranks 91 of 206 — above 115 of the 205 other North Carolina cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +18.3% 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.
Property counts dominate Mount Airy'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.
Mount Airy's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 11.7 Census sq mi, Mount Airy logged 22 property and 2.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Mount Airy's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (63% of 291 offenses; mix index 4,449).
Violent offenses are only 11% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (11.7 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
+37.5%
226.6 → 311.6/100K
Property Crime Rate
-18.6%
2992.8 → 2436.3/100K
Property offenses lead Mount Airy's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
258
2436.3
1711
Larceny-Theft
183
1728
-
Burglary
56
528.8
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
19
179.4
-
Arson
4
37.8
-
Violent Crime
33
311.6
352
Aggravated Assault
25
236.1
-
Rape
7
66.1
-
Murder
1
9.4
-
Robbery
0
0
-
Mount Airy Crime Trend (2020-2024)
The chart omits 2020 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Mount Airy property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Mount Airy Police Department
Reporting agency for Mount Airy NIBRS-participating
Mount Airy Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Mount Airy's 291 reported offenses (4-year span 2021-2024).
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 Mount Airy in population. Their populations run from 9,788 to 11,330, against 10,590 here. Or use our
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Mount Airy at 311.6/100K violent and 2,436.3/100K property - matched below outside North Carolina (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Mount Airy reported 33 violent crimes and 258 property crimes, for a total of 291 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Mount Airy?
From 2023 to 2024, Mount Airy's violent crime rate increased by 37.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 18.6%.
What is the most common crime in Mount Airy?
The most common crime type in Mount Airy is larceny-theft, accounting for 62.9% of all reported crimes (183 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Mount Airy 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 Mount Airy, NC rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.