County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
Currituck County, NC
Currituck County (28,100 people) sits in the mid-size county band in North Carolina. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.
Currituck County, NC reported 246 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Currituck County, NC agencies reported 69 violent and 235 property offenses. That equals about 246 violent and 836 property crimes per 100,000 using a verified Census population join. Table 10 coverage is a voluntary subset of U.S. counties.
2024 UCR year
69 violent offenses
246/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Currituck County, NC
Position in the state cohort
Currituck County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable North Carolina counties
At 245.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Currituck County ranks 10 of 77 — above 67 of the 76 other North Carolina counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +102.1% against the cohort median of 121.5. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 75.7% of reported property offenses in Currituck County, against a cohort median of 58.4%. The remainder is burglary (47) and motor vehicle theft (10). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 22.7% of the 304 Part I offenses reported in Currituck County for 2024, against a median of 17.9% across comparable North Carolina counties — a gap of 4.8 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 close to where it started
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 249.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 245.6 in 2024 (-1.4%). The highest observed value was 284.7 in 2023 and the lowest 202.8 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Mid-size county rows still aggregate voluntary UCR submissions. Per-100,000 rates need a matched 2020 Census population; unmatched stay count-only. County-wide totals rarely describe any single town inside the line.
Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · mid-size county
Category
Count
Property Crime
235
Burglary
47
Larceny-Theft
178
Motor Vehicle Theft
10
Arson
1
Violent Crime
69
Murder
1
Rape
14
Robbery
1
Aggravated Assault
53
Reporting Agency
Currituck County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Currituck County's crime figures on this page originate from Currituck County Sheriff's Office'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 Counties in North Carolina
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Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Crime in the United States (CIUS) Table 10.
FBI Table 10 supplies county offense counts but no resident population. Where this page shows a per-100,000 rate, the denominator is a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census Bureau county population; unmatched county rows remain count-only. Statewide comparisons draw on the state UCR program. Verify with FBI.gov UCR and Census.gov QuickFacts.
County Table 10 totals are voluntary agency filings: incomplete coverage is not a county crime measure, and a countywide figure is not a neighbourhood verdict.