Pineville, NC is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 106% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Pineville, NC shows violent crime at 723.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 8,755.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 106% 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
723.7/100K violent
8755.5/100K property
+106% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Pineville, NC
Comparable rate records
Pineville's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the North Carolina cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Pineville's 723.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Charlotte-Mecklenburg (733.2), Benson (748.6), Ahoskie (698.7), Wilson's Mills (754.7). 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.
Position in the state cohort
Pineville reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable North Carolina cities
At 723.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Pineville ranks 30 of 206 — above 176 of the 205 other North Carolina cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +174.7% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 651.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 723.7 in 2024 (+11.1%). The highest observed value was 875.0 in 2021 and the lowest 522.5 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 7.6% of the 1,074 Part I offenses reported in Pineville for 2024, against a median of 11.6% across comparable North Carolina cities — a gap of 3.9 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.
Property counts dominate Pineville'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.
Pineville's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 6.6 Census sq mi, Pineville logged 149.4 property and 12.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Pineville's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (71% of 1,074 offenses; mix index 5,335).
Violent offenses are only 8% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (6.6 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
+0.6%
8699.6 → 8755.5/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-0.4%
726.5 → 723.7/100K
Property offenses lead Pineville's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs NC
Property Crime
992
8755.5
1711
1929.5
Larceny-Theft
765
6752
-
-
Burglary
131
1156.2
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
96
847.3
-
-
Arson
2
17.7
-
-
Violent Crime
82
723.7
352
364.6
Aggravated Assault
57
503.1
-
-
Robbery
22
194.2
-
-
Rape
3
26.5
-
-
Murder
0
0
-
-
Pineville Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Pineville 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
Pineville Police Department
Reporting agency for Pineville NIBRS-participating
Pineville Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Pineville's 1,074 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 Pineville in population. Their populations run from 10,590 to 12,045, against 11,330 here. Or use our
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Pineville at 723.7/100K violent and 8,755.5/100K property - matched below outside North Carolina (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Pineville reported 82 violent crimes and 992 property crimes, for a total of 1,074 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Pineville?
From 2023 to 2024, Pineville's violent crime rate decreased by 0.4%, and the property crime rate increased by 0.6%.
What is the most common crime in Pineville?
The most common crime type in Pineville is larceny-theft, accounting for 71.2% of all reported crimes (765 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Pineville 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 Pineville, NC rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.