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Taylorsville, NC crime analytics

Source & Methodology

Analytics built by:   Location, Inc.

Raw data sources:   18,000 local law enforcement agencies in the U.S.

Date(s) & Update Frequency:   "Reflects 2023 calendar year; released from FBI in October 2024 (latest available). Updated annually." Where is 2024 data?

Methodology:   Our nationwide meta-analysis overcomes the issues inherent in any crime database, including non-reporting and reporting errors. This is possible by associating the 9.4 million reported crimes in the U.S, including over 2 million geocoded point locations…. Read more about Scout's Crime Data

Taylorsville has an overall crime rate of 10 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 Taylorsville is 1 in 99. How does Taylorsville fare compared to other communities in North Carolina of all population sizes? Taylorsville's crime rate is lower than approximately 58% of North Carolina communities.

However, when you compare Taylorsville to other communities of similar population, then Taylorsville crime rate (violent and property crimes combined) is quite a bit higher than average. Regardless of how Taylorsville 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.

Now let us turn to take a look at how Taylorsville 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 Taylorsville.

For Taylorsville, NeighborhoodScout found that the violent crime rate is well below the national average for all communities of all population sizes. Violent crimes such as assault, rape, murder and armed robbery happen less often in Taylorsville than in most of America. One's chance of becoming a victim of a violent crime here is one in 2273, which is a violent crime rate of 0 per one thousand inhabitants.

NeighborhoodScout's analysis also reveals that Taylorsville's rate for property crime is 10 per one thousand population. This makes Taylorsville a place where there is an above average chance of becoming a victim of a property crime, when compared to all other communities in America of all population sizes. Property crimes are motor vehicle theft, arson, larceny, and burglary. Your chance of becoming a victim of any of these crimes in Taylorsville is one in 103.

Taylorsville Crime Data

total Crime Index

44

(100 is safest)


Safer than 44% of U.S. cities.

Taylorsville Annual Crimes

  Violent Property Total

Number of Crimes

1

22

23

Crime Rate
(per 1,000 residents)

0.44

9.68

10.12

Violent Crime

Violent Crime Comparison (per 1,000 residents)

20 15 10 5 0
0.44
3.91
National Median: 4
    Taylorsville
    North Carolina

Chances of Becoming a Victim of a Violent Crime

1 in 2,273

in Taylorsville

1 in 256

in North Carolina

Taylorsville Violent Crimes

Population: 2,273
Murder Rape Robbery Assault
Report Total 0 0 1 0
Rate per 1,000 0.00 0.00 0.44 0.00

United States Violent Crimes

Population: 334,914,895
Murder Rape Robbery Assault
Report Total 19,252 127,216 222,795 884,550
Rate per 1,000 0.06 0.38 0.67 2.64

Property Crime

Property Crime Comparison (per 1,000 residents)

100 75 50 25 0
9.68
20.65
National Median: 19
    Taylorsville
    North Carolina

Chances of Becoming a Victim of a Property Crime

1 in 103

in Taylorsville

1 in 48

in North Carolina

Property Crimes

Population: 2,273
burglary theft motor vehicle theft
Report Total 6 15 1
Rate per 1,000 2.64 6.60 0.44

United States Property Crimes

Population: 334,914,895
burglary theft motor vehicle theft
Report Total 839,563 4,512,064 1,067,522
Rate per 1,000 2.51 13.47 3.19

Taylorsville Crimes Per Square Mile

200 150 100 50 0
10
23
National Median: 26.5
    Taylorsville
    North Carolina