Plymouth, NC is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 429% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Plymouth, NC shows violent crime at 1,861.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,502.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 429% 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
1861.8/100K violent
3502.7/100K property
+429% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Plymouth, NC
Position in the state cohort
Plymouth reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable North Carolina cities
At 1861.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Plymouth ranks 3 of 206 — above 203 of the 205 other North Carolina cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +606.6% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 34.7% of the 170 Part I offenses reported in Plymouth for 2024, against a median of 11.4% across comparable North Carolina cities — a gap of 23.3 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 higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 1177.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 1861.8 in 2024 (+58.1%). The highest observed value was 1861.8 in 2024 and the lowest 913.2 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
Plymouth's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the North Carolina cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Plymouth's 1861.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Laurinburg (1894.1), Henderson (1791.6), Wadesboro (2037.1), Lumberton (1676.5). 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.
Property counts dominate Plymouth'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.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Plymouth's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 4 Census sq mi, Plymouth logged 27.6 property and 14.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Plymouth leans on larceny-theft at 44% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,083.
Violent offenses are 35% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (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
+30.4%
1428.1 → 1861.8/100K
Property Crime Rate
+25.4%
2794.2 → 3502.7/100K
Property offenses lead Plymouth's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs NC
Property Crime
111
3502.7
1711
1929.5
Larceny-Theft
74
2335.1
-
-
Burglary
31
978.2
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
6
189.3
-
-
Arson
0
0
-
-
Violent Crime
59
1861.8
352
364.6
Aggravated Assault
49
1546.2
-
-
Murder
4
126.2
-
-
Rape
4
126.2
-
-
Robbery
2
63.1
-
-
Plymouth Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Plymouth 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 averagesRead the chart as a list
Plymouth: 1862 violent, 3503 property per 100,000 (grade F)
Red Springs: 886 violent, 4366 property per 100,000 (grade F)
Windsor: 444 violent, 1205 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Southern Shores: 32 violent, 1111 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Nags Head: 256 violent, 3419 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Yadkinville: 298 violent, 1884 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Louisburg: 359 violent, 5509 property per 100,000 (grade D)
Troy: 302 violent, 1608 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Wilson's Mills: 755 violent, 1098 property per 100,000 (grade F)
Plymouth Police Department
Reporting agency for Plymouth NIBRS-participating
Plymouth Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Plymouth's 170 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 Plymouth in population. Their populations run from 2,915 to 3,340, against 3,169 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Plymouth reported 59 violent crimes and 111 property crimes, for a total of 170 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Plymouth?
From 2023 to 2024, Plymouth's violent crime rate increased by 30.4%, and the property crime rate increased by 25.4%.
What is the most common crime in Plymouth?
The most common crime type in Plymouth is larceny-theft, accounting for 43.5% of all reported crimes (74 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Plymouth is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Plymouth, NC rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.