Table 10

NORTH CAROLINA
Offenses Known to Law Enforcement
by State by Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Counties, 2006
[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	130	2	7	10	111	1,281	452	737	92	7
	Alexander	60	2	6	6	46	716	328	336	52	4
	Anson	56	5	2	11	38	566	249	275	42	2
	Brunswick	148	6	20	27	95	2,339	1,038	1,078	223	12
	Buncombe	220	1	17	48	154	2,717	1,069	1,389	259	11
	Cabarrus	34	2	2	13	17	1,277	595	626	56	4
	Caldwell	64	1	6	9	48	1,379	528	771	80	22
	Catawba	135	4	11	30	90	1,635	622	862	151	16
	Chatham	117	2	4	17	94	898	384	428	86	6
	Cumberland	554	11	20	95	428	4,896	1,624	2,931	341	40
	Currituck	63	1	6	9	47	502	194	287	21	2
	Davie	67	1	4	4	58	682	254	383	45	4
	Durham	64	3	0	15	46	904	222	600	82	5
	Edgecombe	78	1	4	18	55	662	273	325	64	7
	Forsyth	331	2	17	49	263	2,867	799	1,884	184	56
	Franklin	14	0	2	5	7	727	330	348	49	2
	Greene	72	1	18	19	34	523	197	299	27	2
	Guilford	217	3	12	37	165	1,984	750	1,074	160	32
	Haywood	101	1	8	2	90	980	417	473	90	7
	Henderson	105	3	16	12	74	1,409	551	696	162	2
	Hoke	115	3	11	20	81	1,229	654	507	68	32
	Johnston	141	9	8	23	101	2,315	789	1,275	251	7
	Madison	19	0	2	0	17	192	80	94	18	2
	Nash	57	5	5	11	36	777	282	407	88	7
	New Hanover	258	0	30	39	189	2,738	735	1,881	122	8
	Onslow	335	6	39	62	228	2,660	895	1,567	198	27
	Orange	23	1	2	14	6	769	330	371	68	2
	Pender	65	0	4	13	48	905	320	483	102	6
	Person	93	1	3	5	84	577	277	276	24	2
	Pitt	314	4	19	32	259	1,572	553	921	98	11
	Rockingham	67	4	3	8	52	1,490	504	873	113	2
	Stokes	116	0	4	8	104	924	329	510	85	11
	Union²		4	7	25		2,662	1,009	1,550	103	12
	Wake	208	4	22	35	147	2,828	1,062	1,487	279	18
	Wayne	194	3	4	38	149	2,047	834	1,096	117	4
	Yadkin	86	0	4	5	77	648	263	335	50	1
Nonmetropolitan Counties	Ashe	45	0	5	3	37	369	190	155	24	3
	Avery	11	0	2	0	9	128	30	86	12	0
	Beaufort	121	0	5	25	91	776	253	475	48	7
	Bertie	19	0	2	4	13	326	125	148	53	3
	Bladen	135	7	2	12	114	932	332	540	60	3
	Camden	10	2	2	1	5	68	34	29	5	6
	Carteret	67	0	20	6	41	641	220	382	39	2
	Caswell	89	0	9	12	68	419	154	231	34	2
	Clay	22	0	4	2	16	136	66	62	8	0
	Cleveland	66	1	17	33	15	1,580	556	845	179	2
	Columbus	149	2	6	34	107	1,718	729	820	169	24
	Craven	132	0	3	22	107	1,270	398	770	102	2
	Dare	31	0	0	0	31	624	172	441	11	0
	Davidson	179	2	2	25	150	2,053	157	1,683	213	16
	Duplin	126	3	3	16	104	851	424	356	71	5
	Granville	83	3	5	8	67	823	349	444	30	1
	Halifax	92	1	4	26	61	1,123	602	439	82	12
	Harnett	267	1	19	28	219	2,269	924	1,116	229	36
	Hertford	51	2	10	7	32	343	150	176	17	2
	Jackson	89	0	5	6	78	695	299	342	54	4
	Jones	32	1	1	2	28	242	48	168	26	1
	Lee	28	1	7	8	12	645	282	265	98	24
	Lenoir	109	3	8	7	91	972	281	635	56	9
	Macon	15	1	4	1	9	457	168	259	30	3
	McDowell	52	2	5	15	30	631	268	316	47	8
	Montgomery	32	0	2	2	28	487	162	283	42	0
	Moore	83	5	9	12	57	948	404	468	76	12
	Northampton	35	2	1	6	26	332	174	133	25	1
	Pasquotank	45	1	6	7	31	437	158	249	30	4
	Perquimans	5	1	1	3	0	176	107	47	22	2
	Polk	18	1	2	1	14	312	96	202	14	2
	Richmond	140	0	8	35	97	1,329	534	712	83	17
	Robeson	503	22	20	96	365	3,767	1,882	1,469	416	29
	Rutherford	150	3	19	17	111	874	383	401	90	17
	Sampson	148	4	20	34	90	1,339	683	520	136	14
	Scotland	57	1	11	14	31	488	227	213	48	17
	Stanly	37	0	17	2	18	349	150	183	16	2
	Surry	126	1	9	16	100	1,495	560	744	191	23
	Swain	23	0	0	1	22	330	87	220	23	5
	Transylvania	35	0	0	2	33	281	136	123	22	6
	Tyrrell	15	0	3	3	9	53	14	34	5	1
	Vance	73	2	8	16	47	1,314	625	598	91	10
	Warren	39	7	6	9	17	565	246	279	40	5
	Watauga	19	0	4	1	14	537	205	301	31	5
	Wilkes	90	3	3	7	77	1,038	424	531	83	4
	Wilson	82	3	2	4	73	852	220	575	57	8
	Yancey	12	0	0	0	12	70	32	34	4	5

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.
² The FBI determined that the agency's data were underreported. Consequently, affected data are not included in this table.

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