Snow Hill, NC has a B safety grade (61/100) with a violent crime rate of 205 per 100,000, 42% below the national average.

FBI UCR 2024 Per-capita rates FBI UCR + NIBRS

Snow Hill, NC Crime Rate & Safety

Snow Hill's UCR row covers a small municipal population (1,467). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to NC and U.S. averages.

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B
Safety grade
Above Average
2113.2
Property / 100K
204.5
Violent / 100K
1K
Population
+24%
property vs U.S.

Snow Hill, NC carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 42% below the U.S. average

According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Snow Hill, NC shows violent crime at 204.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,113.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 42% 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
  • 204.5/100K violent
  • 2113.2/100K property
  • -42% vs U.S.

The verdict

Snow Hill earns a B safety grade: violent crime runs 42% below the U.S. average, placing it close to the national middle for violent crime.

B
PlainCrime safety grade
-42%
violent crime vs. U.S. average
45th
percentile of 7,769 U.S. cities
2,113.2
property crimes per 100K

Based on 3 reported violent incidents in a population of 1,467. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.

What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Snow Hill, NC

Small-count caution

The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable

Snow Hill reported 3 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 1,467. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.

Comparable rate records

Snow Hill's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the North Carolina cohort

The nearest comparable 2024 records to Snow Hill's 204.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Havelock (205.1), Granite Falls (203.7), Wrightsville Beach (207.9), Burgaw (198.4). 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.

2020–2024 direction

The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower

Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 266.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 204.5 in 2024 (-23.2%). The highest observed value was 266.1 in 2020 and the lowest 135.5 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.

Property-offense composition

Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort

Larceny-theft is 61.3% of reported property offenses in Snow Hill, against a cohort median of 74.6%. The remainder is burglary (11) and motor vehicle theft (1). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.

Position in the state cohort

Snow Hill sits mid-pack among comparable North Carolina cities

At 204.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Snow Hill ranks 126 of 206 — above 80 of the 205 other North Carolina cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -28.3% 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.

Property counts dominate Snow Hill'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.

Based on 3 reported violent incidents in a population of 1,467. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.

On a small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.

Property rate moved most (2023→2024)

Property Crime Rate
-31.9%
3101.3 → 2113.2/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-1.1%
206.8 → 204.5/100K

Property offenses lead Snow Hill's 2024 record

Offense Count Rate /100K
Property Crime 31 2113.2
Larceny-Theft 19 1295.2
Burglary 11 749.8
Motor Vehicle Theft 1 68.2
Arson 1 68.2
Violent Crime 3 204.5
Rape 1 68.2
Robbery 1 68.2
Aggravated Assault 1 68.2
Murder 0 0

Snow Hill Crime Trend (2020-2024)

Snow Hill property crime rate trend

Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR

Property crime rate (2024)
2,113.2/100K 31.9% vs 2023
1,5002,0002,5003,0003,500 20202021202220232024 2,113

Snow Hill violent crime rate trend

Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR

Violent crime rate (2024)
204.5/100K 1.1% vs 2023
100150200250300 20202021202220232024 205
Year Coverage Population Violent Rate Property Rate
2020 Comparable 1,503 266.1 1729.9
2021 Comparable 1,476 135.5 2439
2022 Comparable 1,532 261.1 2480.4
2023 Comparable 1,451 206.8 3101.3
2024 Comparable 1,467 204.5 2113.2

How Snow Hill sits among NC peers

Snow Hill vs. similar-size NC cities, violent vs. property crime. X axis violent crime per 100K, Y axis property crime per 100K, split by the national averages. 9 cities; the anchor is ringed. Snow Hill vs. similar-size NC cities, violent vs. property crime 0 838 Violent crime per 100K → 559 4,354 Property crime per 100K → Snow Hill SAFEST HIGHEST CRIME Safety grade A / B C D / F
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages

Reporting Agency

Snow Hill Police Department NIBRS-participating

Snow Hill's crime figures on this page originate from Snow Hill Police Department's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.

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 Snow Hill in population. Their populations run from 1,347 to 1,538, against 1,467 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.

Similar violent-crime rates in North Carolina

These North Carolina cities report the closest violent-crime rates to Snow Hill's 204.5/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the crime rate in Snow Hill, NC?
Snow Hill has a violent crime rate of 204.5 per 100,000 residents and a property crime rate of 2113.2 per 100,000, based on 2024 FBI UCR data.
Is Snow Hill, NC safe?
Snow Hill receives a safety grade of B (Above Average), with a safety score of 61/100. The violent crime rate is 42% below the national average and 44% below the North Carolina average.
What is the population of Snow Hill, NC?
The reporting population for Snow Hill is 1,467 as of 2024.
How many crimes were reported in Snow Hill?
In 2024, Snow Hill reported 3 violent crimes and 31 property crimes, for a total of 34 reported offenses.
How do Snow Hill's reported offenses compare with its population?
In 2024, Snow Hill recorded about one reported offense per 43 residents and one reported violent offense per 489 residents. These ratios count reported offenses, not distinct victims, and are not a person's probability of victimization.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Snow Hill?
From 2023 to 2024, Snow Hill's violent crime rate decreased by 1.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 31.9%.
What is the most common crime in Snow Hill?
The most common crime type in Snow Hill is larceny-theft, accounting for 55.9% of all reported crimes (19 incidents in 2024).

Micro-municipal read: Snow Hill's FBI UCR Table 8 row (2024) is the only source for the rates above.

With a small population base, per-100,000 rates amplify sparse counts. Incomplete submissions are excluded from rankings. See FBI.gov UCR for the raw Table 8 file.

Disclaimer (small municipal): small-base rates are especially easy to misread. Informational only - not advice. Source: FBI UCR Program.

Federal sources for this micro-municipal row

Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Snow Hill, NC rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.

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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Snow Hill is scored as a small municipal UCR reporter (1,467 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.