Table 10

NORTH CAROLINA
Offenses Known to Law Enforcement
by State by Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Counties, 2007
[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 Counties	County	Violent crime	Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter	Forcible rape	Robbery	Aggravated assault	Property crime	Burglary	Larceny- theft	Motor vehicle theft	Arson¹
Metropolitan Counties	Alexander	80	3	12	7	58	763	289	423	51	8
	Brunswick	151	5	17	34	95	2,175	787	1,184	204	12
	Buncombe	185	6	19	32	128	2,540	952	1,373	215	12
	Caldwell	72	2	11	7	52	1,384	532	741	111	23
	Cumberland	581	7	24	107	443	4,906	1,606	2,993	307	33
	Currituck	44	1	1	1	41	533	179	334	20	2
	Davie²	64	2	1	5	56			350	46	7
	Durham	65	2	0	18	45	1,079	285	712	82	1
	Edgecombe	74	3	5	17	49	681	302	321	58	3
	Forsyth	286	2	25	50	209	2,720	819	1,764	137	25
	Franklin	30	2	3	16	9	653	316	291	46	1
	Gaston	16	0	0	0	16	6	0	6	0	0
	Gaston County Police Department	289	4	22	38	225	1,956	674	1,049	233	32
	Greene	39	0	9	10	20	670	276	342	52	6
	Guilford	202	8	9	52	133	1,973	762	1,074	137	32
	Haywood	103	2	5	5	91	884	300	534	50	3
	Henderson	68	0	18	14	36	1,306	476	709	121	3
	Madison	9	0	4	1	4	223	106	101	16	3
	Nash	48	4	3	18	23	673	256	329	88	14
	New Hanover	222	1	29	42	150	2,723	591	1,929	203	21
	Onslow	294	4	35	50	205	2,785	994	1,592	199	31
	Orange	31	4	3	19	5	895	428	410	57	4
	Pender³	75	1	30	2	42		429	588		4
	Person	69	1	10	6	52	624	268	326	30	2
	Pitt	235	3	14	27	191	1,823	698	986	139	18
	Randolph	129	6	4	24	95	2,489	712	1,595	182	6
	Rockingham	105	3	4	24	74	1,422	451	863	108	1
	Stokes	125	0	8	5	112	1,042	376	566	100	6
	Wake	217	6	29	43	139	2,944	1,070	1,559	315	17
	Wayne	163	6	4	24	129	2,097	793	1,135	169	4
	Yadkin	97	2	4	4	87	644	268	314	62	7
Nonmetropolitan Counties	Ashe	33	0	6	1	26	364	168	182	14	5
	Beaufort	120	1	6	11	102	782	321	399	62	4
	Bertie	19	0	1	11	7	331	163	135	33	2
	Bladen	147	1	1	20	125	1,012	348	607	57	9
	Camden	8	0	3	0	5	92	23	69	0	1
	Caswell	54	3	8	7	36	454	202	224	28	3
	Chowan	10	2	2	2	4	124	58	64	2	0
	Clay	14	0	1	0	13	197	65	111	21	3
	Craven	138	1	10	12	115	1,367	413	857	97	3
	Dare	36	0	3	3	30	567	171	382	14	1
	Davidson	205	3	2	21	179	2,212	252	1,719	241	20
	Duplin	148	2	5	21	120	1,232	483	638	111	8
	Gates	9	0	2	2	5	128	41	85	2	3
	Granville	101	1	5	18	77	909	290	565	54	6
	Halifax	124	4	6	20	94	1,062	552	441	69	11
	Hertford	48	2	1	18	27	339	117	197	25	1
	Iredell	193	1	15	22	155	1,998	720	1,110	168	19
	Jones	16	1	0	5	10	222	49	166	7	1
	Lee	41	3	7	7	24	607	271	281	55	12
	Lenoir	149	1	11	18	119	997	344	595	58	11
	Lincoln	126	3	12	21	90	1,820	730	1,016	74	8
	Macon	16	0	4	1	11	494	182	281	31	3
	McDowell	31	2	6	4	19	636	279	310	47	8
	Montgomery	34	1	5	4	24	459	163	262	34	1
	Moore	63	2	7	8	46	882	371	447	64	4
	Northampton	47	2	4	5	36	504	271	183	50	1
	Pasquotank	57	0	6	3	48	425	155	239	31	8
	Perquimans	2	1	0	1	0	132	62	64	6	6
	Richmond	143	2	4	37	100	1,264	491	677	96	24
	Robeson	507	2	24	90	391	4,278	2,203	1,631	444	33
	Rutherford	131	0	11	18	102	1,212	440	690	82	16
	Scotland	42	1	11	5	25	630	346	230	54	15
	Stanly	56	0	15	3	38	544	212	299	33	7
	Surry	114	1	21	12	80	1,381	483	666	232	32
	Swain	23	0	1	3	19	234	84	135	15	1
	Transylvania	40	3	3	4	30	335	133	158	44	2
	Tyrrell	12	0	0	3	9	93	11	80	2	1
	Vance	117	1	10	20	86	1,374	617	649	108	5
	Warren	30	0	5	9	16	550	161	359	30	3
	Watauga	16	0	1	1	14	529	222	278	29	3
	Wilkes	171	1	5	18	147	1,221	461	675	85	7
	Wilson	88	2	7	10	69	842	216	559	67	9
	Yancey	20	0	3	0	17	104	54	45	5	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.
² The FBI determined that the agency's data were overreported. Consequently, affected data are not included in this table.
³ The FBI determined that the agency's data were underreported. Consequently, affected data are not included in this table.

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