Rockingham, NC is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 75% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Rockingham, NC shows violent crime at 614.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,835.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 75% 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
614.6/100K violent
3835.6/100K property
+75% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Rockingham, NC
Comparable rate records
Rockingham's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the North Carolina cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Rockingham's 614.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Durham (619.2), Bryson City (602.0), Reidsville (596.5), Kings Mountain (647.6). 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
Rockingham reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable North Carolina cities
At 614.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Rockingham ranks 38 of 206 — above 168 of the 205 other North Carolina cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +133.3% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 782.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 614.6 in 2024 (-21.4%). The highest observed value was 1068.4 in 2021 and the lowest 614.6 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Rockingham'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.
Rockingham's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 7.6 Census sq mi, Rockingham logged 44.1 property and 7.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Rockingham's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (63% of 391 offenses; mix index 4,431).
Violent offenses are only 14% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (7.6 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-20.6%
774.2 → 614.6/100K
Property Crime Rate
-13%
4409.3 → 3835.6/100K
Property offenses lead Rockingham's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs NC
Property Crime
337
3835.6
1711
1929.5
Larceny-Theft
248
2822.7
-
-
Burglary
62
705.7
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
27
307.3
-
-
Arson
0
0
-
-
Violent Crime
54
614.6
352
364.6
Aggravated Assault
40
455.3
-
-
Murder
5
56.9
-
-
Robbery
5
56.9
-
-
Rape
4
45.5
-
-
Rockingham Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Rockingham 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 averagesRead the chart as a list
Rockingham: 615 violent, 3836 property per 100,000 (grade F)
Dunn: 904 violent, 5108 property per 100,000 (grade F)
Black Mountain: 58 violent, 1179 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Oxford: 842 violent, 3587 property per 100,000 (grade F)
Clinton: 566 violent, 3277 property per 100,000 (grade F)
Roxboro: 1008 violent, 3509 property per 100,000 (grade F)
Fletcher: 73 violent, 1338 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Butner: 245 violent, 1312 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Siler City: 479 violent, 2149 property per 100,000 (grade D)
Rockingham Police Department
Reporting agency for Rockingham NIBRS-participating
Rockingham Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Rockingham's 391 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 Rockingham in population. Their populations run from 8,142 to 9,032, against 8,786 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Rockingham reported 54 violent crimes and 337 property crimes, for a total of 391 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Rockingham?
From 2023 to 2024, Rockingham's violent crime rate decreased by 20.6%, and the property crime rate decreased by 13%.
What is the most common crime in Rockingham?
The most common crime type in Rockingham is larceny-theft, accounting for 63.4% of all reported crimes (248 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Rockingham 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 Rockingham, NC rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.