Thomasville, NC is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 6% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Thomasville, NC shows violent crime at 330.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,296.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 6% 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
330.6/100K violent
2296.1/100K property
-6% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Thomasville, NC
Comparable rate records
Thomasville's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the North Carolina cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Thomasville's 330.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Warsaw (328.7), Carolina Beach (332.5), Zebulon (328.3), Shallotte (324.4). 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 446.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 330.6 in 2024 (-26.0%). The highest observed value was 446.8 in 2020 and the lowest 315.4 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
Thomasville sits mid-pack among comparable North Carolina cities
At 330.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Thomasville ranks 85 of 206 — above 121 of the 205 other North Carolina cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +25.5% 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 Thomasville'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.
Thomasville's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 16.9 Census sq mi, Thomasville logged 37.5 property and 5.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Thomasville's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (60% of 723 offenses; mix index 4,058).
Violent offenses are only 13% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (16.9 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
-9.9%
367.1 → 330.6/100K
Property Crime Rate
-4.1%
2395.1 → 2296.1/100K
Property offenses lead Thomasville's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
632
2296.1
1711
Larceny-Theft
431
1565.8
-
Burglary
132
479.6
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
69
250.7
-
Arson
6
21.8
-
Violent Crime
91
330.6
352
Aggravated Assault
59
214.4
-
Robbery
25
90.8
-
Murder
5
18.2
-
Rape
2
7.3
-
Thomasville Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Thomasville 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
Thomasville Police Department
Reporting agency for Thomasville NIBRS-participating
Thomasville Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Thomasville's 723 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 Thomasville in population. Their populations run from 22,028 to 32,548, against 27,525 here. Or use our
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Thomasville at 330.6/100K violent and 2,296.1/100K property - matched below outside North Carolina (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Thomasville reported 91 violent crimes and 632 property crimes, for a total of 723 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Thomasville?
From 2023 to 2024, Thomasville's violent crime rate decreased by 9.9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 4.1%.
What is the most common crime in Thomasville?
The most common crime type in Thomasville is larceny-theft, accounting for 59.6% of all reported crimes (431 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Thomasville 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 Thomasville, NC rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.