Table 10

NORTH CAROLINA
Offenses Known to Law Enforcement
by State by Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Counties, 2005
[The data shown in this table do not reflect county totals but are the number of offenses reported by the sheriff's office or county police department.]

Metropolitan/Nonmetropolitan	County	Violent crime	Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter	Forcible rape	Robbery	Aggravated assault	Property crime	Burglary	Larceny-theft	Motor vehicle theft	Arson¹
Metropolitan Counties	Alamance	146	3	11	9	123	1,153	423	639	91	5
	Alexander	69	2	6	7	54	730	281	385	64	11
	Brunswick	127	4	17	24	82	2,150	1,004	955	191	9
	Buncombe	165	4	12	30	119	2,610	980	1,369	261	9
	Burke	106	5	5	11	85	1,553	647	783	123	9
	Cabarrus	54	0	5	11	38	1,048	596	389	63	3
	Caldwell	81	4	6	6	65	1,358	588	686	84	20
	Catawba	136	4	14	15	103	1,816	715	923	178	9
	Cumberland	644	8	29	133	474	5,997	2,310	3,384	303	79
	Currituck	49	0	5	3	41	578	163	396	19	1
	Davie	61	0	8	6	47	552	222	290	40	3
	Durham	127	2	0	23	102	968	240	656	72	1
	Edgecombe	61	2	2	10	47	628	259	320	49	4
	Forsyth	291	1	22	25	243	2,929	834	1,928	167	52
	Franklin	24	1	1	9	13	806	397	348	61	4
	Gaston County Police Department	216	5	12	32	167	1,785	640	914	231	37
	Greene	54	0	7	12	35	410	163	221	26	2
	Guilford	206	2	11	45	148	1,853	705	999	149	38
	Haywood	103	1	6	2	94	985	366	547	72	5
	Henderson	96	2	20	16	58	1,372	471	766	135	3
	Hoke	99	1	5	18	75	1,215	674	456	85	21
	Johnston	153	4	10	15	124	2,298	867	1,223	208	8
	Madison	24	1	3	0	20	186	74	88	24	3
	Nash	99	3	9	16	71	787	271	441	75	12
	New Hanover	255	0	39	44	172	2,617	778	1,713	126	8
	Orange	30	3	1	13	13	672	309	303	60	2
	Pender	52	0	5	9	38	762	260	410	92	3
	Person	85	2	6	4	73	531	239	277	15	2
	Pitt	247	2	16	28	201	1,585	526	969	90	9
	Randolph	121	9	3	22	87	2,568	686	1,727	155	9
	Rockingham	83	1	7	16	59	1,370	463	812	95	4
	Stokes	95	4	3	9	79	969	383	501	85	11
	Union	677	0	21	10	646	1,675	622	984	69	17
	Wake	133	0	38	26	69	2,342	868	1,284	190	17
	Wayne	124	2	3	25	94	1,747	633	1,027	87	3
	Yadkin	82	1	1	4	76	562	236	282	44	5
Nonmetropolitan Counties	Beaufort	89	1	5	15	68	845	280	514	51	8
	Bertie	20	0	3	1	16	346	154	167	25	2
	Bladen	166	1	4	7	154	882	288	533	61	2
	Camden	12	0	0	1	11	50	19	28	3	1
	Carteret	70	3	4	7	56	445	148	251	46	3
	Caswell	72	3	2	8	59	379	144	205	30	0
	Cherokee	68	1	8	1	58	431	147	250	34	7
	Chowan	10	0	1	1	8	133	63	58	12	0
	Clay	4	1	0	0	3	142	52	69	21	4
	Cleveland	46	0	9	34	3	1,588	559	912	117	5
	Columbus	250	6	9	33	202	1,618	685	792	141	4
	Craven	164	0	5	12	147	1,401	413	892	96	1
	Dare	43	1	3	1	38	569	146	408	15	1
	Davidson	173	1	3	23	146	2,201	166	1,783	252	16
	Duplin	107	2	2	8	95	794	446	271	77	4
	Granville	63	1	2	14	46	752	300	408	44	4
	Halifax	100	8	5	23	64	1,084	551	437	96	9
	Harnett	252	3	24	27	198	2,396	1,058	1,120	218	24
	Hertford	29	0	5	11	13	370	160	179	31	4
	Iredell	189	6	20	18	145	2,088	782	1,119	187	22
	Jackson	78	1	9	4	64	601	215	341	45	4
	Lee	17	0	5	6	6	444	196	189	59	6
	Lenoir	106	6	6	8	86	955	312	597	46	6
	Macon	20	1	3	1	15	465	163	276	26	2
	Martin	95	1	1	2	91	459	195	230	34	2
	McDowell	32	2	5	8	17	685	296	320	69	8
	Montgomery	56	1	6	5	44	335	115	188	32	0
	Moore	85	1	6	11	67	907	421	406	80	28
	Pasquotank	20	0	2	2	16	385	147	209	29	16
	Perquimans	6	0	1	3	2	183	99	65	19	5
	Polk	21	2	2	0	17	251	77	146	28	3
	Richmond	102	1	9	24	68	1,130	456	625	49	5
	Robeson	508	17	24	108	359	3,618	1,955	1,263	400	38
	Rowan	137	2	20	19	96	1,430	489	810	131	19
	Rutherford	110	6	8	18	78	1,036	469	483	84	8
	Sampson	108	2	12	26	68	1,441	770	567	104	12
	Scotland	54	3	11	16	24	585	302	244	39	20
	Stanly	36	1	19	2	14	340	139	180	21	2
	Surry	153	1	5	12	135	1,374	560	659	155	17
	Swain	34	3	2	0	29	227	58	150	19	2
	Transylvania	31	0	2	1	28	272	108	141	23	7
	Tyrrell	17	1	1	6	9	60	12	43	5	0
	Vance	70	2	4	19	45	1,354	674	608	72	10
	Warren	42	3	4	9	26	568	233	300	35	8
	Watauga	25	1	5	1	18	506	241	224	41	1
	Wilkes	135	1	7	15	112	1,082	355	643	84	5
	Wilson	85	3	3	6	73	773	282	428	63
	Yancey	15	0	3	0	12	86	45	38	3	1

¹ The FBI does not publish arson data unless it receives data from either the agency or the state for all 12 months of the calendar year.

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