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Crime Index: (100 is Safest)

Crime rates for Winston Salem, NC

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Winston Salem zip codes27109, 27104, 27103, 27105, 27106, 27127, 27101, 27107, 27019, 27051

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POPULATION
185,480

Winston Salem Crime Rates

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CRIME INDEX

5

100 is safest


This city is safer than 5% of the cities in the US.

city Annual Crimes

VIOLENT PROPERTY TOTAL
1,523 12,642 14,165
annual crimes per 1,000 residents
8.21 68.16 76.37




  • Violent Crime Comparison per 1,000 residents

  • NATIONAL MEDIAN
  • 4.7
  • MY CHANCES OF BECOMING A VICTIM
  • in Winston Salem
    1 in 122
  • in North Carolina
    1 in 198
8.21
5.05
Winston Salem North Carolina
Winston Salem violent crimes
Population: 185,480
MURDER RAPE ROBBERY ASSAULT
REPORTED TOTAL 21 100 540 862
RATE PER 1,000 0.11 0.54 2.91 4.65
United States violent crimes
Population: 296,410,404
MURDER RAPE ROBBERY ASSAULT
REPORTED TOTAL 16,692 93,934 417,122 862,947
RATE PER 1,000 0.06 0.32 1.41 2.91
  • Property Crime Rate Comparison per 1,000 residents

  • NATIONAL MEDIAN
  • 34.3
  • MY CHANCES OF BECOMING A VICTIM
  • in Winston Salem
    1 in 15
  • in North Carolina
    1 in 22
68.16
43.96
Winston Salem North Carolina
Winston Salem property crimes
Population: 185,480
BURGLARY THEFT MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT
REPORTED TOTAL 3,569 7,927 1,087
RATE PER 1,000 19.24 42.74 5.86
United States property crimes
Population: 296,410,404
BURGLARY THEFT MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT
REPORTED TOTAL 2,154,126 6,776,807 1,235,226
RATE PER 1,000 7.27 22.86 4.17
  • Crimes Per Square Mile

129
12
Winston Salem North Carolina
  • NATIONAL MEDIAN
  • 49.6


About Winston Salem crime rates

With a crime rate of 76 per one thousand residents, Winston Salem has one of the highest crime rates in America compared to all communities of all sizes - from the smallest towns to the very largest cities. One's chance of becoming a victim of either violent or property crime here is one in 13. Within North Carolina, more than 80% of the communities have a lower crime rate than Winston Salem.

Importantly, when you compare Winston Salem to other cities of similar population, the Winston Salem crime rate (violent and property crimes combined) is quite a bit higher than average. Regardless of how Winston Salem 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 Winston Salem 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 Winston Salem.

For Winston Salem, we found that the violent crime rate is one of the highest in the nation, across communities of all sizes (both large and small). Violent offenses tracked included forcible rape, murder and non-negligent manslaughter, armed robbery, and aggravated assault, including assault with a deadly weapon. According to NeighborhoodScout's analysis of FBI reported crime data, your chance of becoming a victim of one of these crimes in Winston Salem is one in 122.

Significantly, based on the number of murders reported by the FBI and the number of residents living in the city, NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that Winston Salem experiences one of the higher murder rates in the nation when compared with cities and towns for all sizes of population, from the largest to the smallest.

In addition, NeighborhoodScout found that a lot of the crime that takes place in Winston Salem is property crime. Property crimes that are tracked for this analysis are burglary, larceny over fifty dollars, motor vehicle theft, and arson. In Winston Salem, your chance of becoming a victim of a property crime is one in 15, which is a rate of 68 per one thousand population.

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