Crime rates for Rural Hall, NC

Rural Hall has an overall crime rate of 21 per 1,000 residents, making the crime rate here near the average for all cities and towns of all sizes in America. According to our analysis of FBI crime data, your chance of becoming a victim of crime in Rural Hall is 1 in 47. How does Rural Hall fare compared to other communities in North Carolina of all population sizes? Rural Hall's crime rate is lower than approximately 70% of North Carolina communities.

However, when you compare Rural Hall to other towns of similar population, the Rural Hall crime rate (violent and property crimes combined) is quite a bit higher than average. Regardless of how Rural Hall does relative to all communities in America of all sizes, when NeighborhoodScout compared it to communities of similar population size, its crime rate per thousand residents stands out as higher than most.

The crime data that NeighborhoodScout used for this analysis are the seven offenses from the uniform crime reports, collected by the FBI from 17,000 local law enforcement agencies, and include both violent and property crimes, combined.

Now let us turn to take a look at how Rural Hall does for violent crimes specifically, and then how it does for property crimes. This is important because the overall crime rate can be further illuminated by understanding if violent crime or property crimes (or both) are the major contributors to the general rate of crime in Rural Hall.

NeighborhoodScout's research shows that Rural Hall's violent crime rate is 2 per one thousand inhabitants, which is about average for all communities in America, across all population sizes. Violent crimes that are tracked and included in this rate are armed robbery, aggravated assault, forcible (not statutory) rape, and murder and non-negligent manslaughter. Roughly similar to the national average, our analysis shows that your chance of becoming a victim of violent crime in Rural Hall is one in 575.

Moreover, the rate of property crime in Rural Hall – burglary, larceny ($50 or more), grand theft auto, and arson – is 20 per 1,000 residents. This is about average for all cities and towns in America of all population sizes.