Table 10

NORTH CAROLINA
Offenses Known to Law Enforcement
by State by Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Counties, 2008
[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	Alamance	161	1	5	16	139	1,275	493	712	70	5
	Alexander	78	3	9	10	56	758	298	418	42	7
	Anson	83	4	4	15	60	608	247	300	61	1
	Brunswick	162	2	21	27	112	2,147	961	1,036	150	32
	Buncombe	194	5	24	50	115	2,462	877	1,356	229	7
	Burke	100	3	7	18	72	1,295	545	649	101	3
	Cabarrus	73	4	11	16	42	1,160	519	583	58	7
	Caldwell	63	3	2	12	46	1,472	519	856	97	17
	Cumberland	740	13	34	182	511	4,852	1,335	3,164	353	41
	Currituck	44	1	4	2	37	514	170	325	19	2
	Davie	43	1	4	7	31	671	259	380	32	2
	Durham	60	1	1	19	39	922	309	542	71	2
	Edgecombe	71	4	8	13	46	586	292	229	65	7
	Franklin²		1	5	14		868	382	387	99	6
	Gaston	16	0	0	0	16	4	0	3	1	0
	Guilford	216	2	22	41	151	2,154	870	1,117	167	33
	Haywood	98	0	6	4	88	958	390	517	51	5
	Henderson	71	0	12	17	42	1,582	626	816	140	1
	Hoke	26	2	1	16	7	789	558	193	38	1
	Johnston	187	3	25	35	124	2,691	1,001	1,436	254	11
	Madison	4	0	2	0	2	217	91	113	13	1
	Nash	79	2	7	25	45	842	374	319	149	17
	New Hanover	184	1	25	50	108	2,635	676	1,823	136	11
	Onslow	289	6	31	49	203	3,148	1,127	1,812	209	22
	Orange	50	5	5	29	11	822	427	345	50	3
	Person	67	2	5	6	54	626	231	351	44	1
	Pitt	255	1	10	36	208	1,835	736	984	115	6
	Randolph	124	1	3	22	98	2,208	647	1,411	150	8
	Rockingham	72	1	3	18	50	1,517	532	864	121	1
	Stokes	101	1	4	7	89	973	336	557	80	4
	Union	311	5	17	22	267	2,104	894	1,087	123	11
	Wake	165	3	15	34	113	1,903	677	1,010	216	13
	Wayne	171	4	1	32	134	2,101	819	1,066	216	2
	Yadkin	103	0	13	5	85	621	235	325	61	7
Nonmetropolitan Counties	Alleghany	1	0	0	1	0	28	2	26	0	0
	Ashe	23	0	4	2	17	413	206	180	27
	Avery	20	0	4	0	16	195	64	120	11	1
	Beaufort	130	1	8	13	108	778	325	391	62	14
	Bertie	26	1	5	6	14	289	132	131	26	2
	Bladen	139	2	1	19	117	1,074	381	637	56	11
	Camden	9	0	2	1	6	98	30	65	3	1
	Cherokee	39	0	2	1	36	549	171	366	12	3
	Chowan	24	0	1	2	21	170	75	91	4	3
	Clay	11	0	0	0	11	153	35	106	12	1
	Cleveland	52	0	27	21	4	1,537	665	691	181	2
	Columbus	161	3	3	36	119	1,705	767	758	180	5
	Dare	41	0	6	2	33	706	179	491	36	4
	Gates	9	0	3	1	5	227	62	145	20	2
	Granville	60	0	7	12	41	891	336	482	73	8
	Halifax	161	3	8	30	120	1,103	563	432	108	16
	Hertford	30	3	2	9	16	398	166	192	40	2
	Iredell	225	3	25	20	177	1,914	705	1,058	151	10
	Lee	41	3	3	9	26	734	287	364	83	12
	Lenoir	170	0	2	14	154	1,051	359	638	54	13
	Lincoln	98	1	14	10	73	1,819	681	1,060	78	8
	Martin²		1	3	6		448	202	195	51	9
	McDowell	54	5	2	12	35	661	266	345	50	5
	Montgomery	64	2	3	6	53	482	172	266	44	1
	Moore	56	2	12	5	37	866	395	385	86	12
	Pasquotank	76	1	8	14	53	344	143	187	14	3
	Perquimans	4	0	2	0	2	146	73	69	4	1
	Richmond	150	5	2	31	112	1,160	478	606	76	13
	Robeson	628	17	18	139	454	4,085	2,137	1,524	424	34
	Rowan	199	3	16	26	154	1,468	493	882	93	13
	Rutherford	157	0	11	23	123	1,373	480	783	110	20
	Sampson	144	6	14	35	89	1,434	739	554	141	9
	Scotland	55	6	2	12	35	754	445	259	50	19
	Stanly	36	2	7	6	21	549	243	281	25	4
	Transylvania	36	0	2	1	33	385	169	186	30	5
	Tyrrell	7	0	2	1	4	64	3	58	3	1
	Vance	83	5	1	17	60	1,398	721	594	83	8
	Warren	39	1	6	10	22	553	240	270	43	5
	Watauga	22	1	0	3	18	497	185	288	24	1
	Wilkes	174	2	3	18	151	1,332	555	689	88	4
	Wilson	98	1	1	15	81	777	245	457	75	9
	Yancey	14	0	0	1	13	144	71	65	8	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, those data are not included in this table.

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