Greensboro Crime Map
North Carolina · September 2025 · updated 2026-11-12
| September 2025 | 1,712 incidents |
|---|---|
| 2024 (full year) | 23,159 incidents |
| Full archive | 119,911 incidents (2020–2025) |
| Per 100K / year | 7,534 |
Source: Greensboro Police Department open data. ⚠ feed frozen since 2025-09-30
About crime in Greensboro
Latest available snapshot. Greensboro has 1,712 incidents for September 2025. Counts reflect the source coverage published for this city.
Year-over-year context
Greensboro recorded 24,356 incidents in 2023 and 23,159 in 2024, a 4.9% decrease. Year-to-year comparisons depend on consistent source coverage and reporting definitions.
2024 category breakdown
| Other | 5,487 |
| Assault | 5,354 |
| Theft | 4,898 |
| Fraud | 2,174 |
| Theft from vehicle | 1,950 |
| Auto theft | 1,531 |
| Burglary | 1,091 |
| Robbery | 488 |
Across 2020–2025, the current archive contains 119,911 incidents for Greensboro. Missing categories or periods reflect what the source publishes; missing is not zero.
Greensboro crime overview
Essay updated 2026-11-01 · figures above are from the latest data
TL;DR. Greensboro recorded 23,159 police-reported incidents in 2024, according to Greensboro Police Department data current through September 2025. Other was the most reported category with 5,487 incidents (23.7%), followed by assault with 5,354 and theft with 4,898. Violent-category incidents totaled 6,028, or 1,961.1 per 100,000 residents. The 2024 total fell 4.9% from 24,356 in 2023, down from 24,783 in 2022 and 24,753 in 2021.
About this data
TheCrimeMaps crime map for Greensboro, North Carolina shows the location of police-reported incidents released through the Greensboro Police Department open-data feed. Points on the map reflect where reports were recorded, and can be explored by offense type and date. The archive on TheCrimeMaps holds all years from 2020 through 2025, with data current through September 2025. Locations can be reviewed by offense category.
In 2024, Greensboro recorded 23,159 police-reported incidents across the 12-month complete year. That equals 7,534.3 reported incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, based on the U.S. Census 2024 population estimate of 307,381. Violent-category incidents totaled 6,028, or 1,961.1 reported incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024. Assault, sexual assault, robbery, shooting and homicide together accounted for 26% of the 2024 total.
Recent trend
Reported incidents in Greensboro declined 4.9% between two consecutive complete calendar years, from 24,356 in 2023 to 23,159 in 2024. The complete-year series shows 24,753 incidents in 2021, 24,783 in 2022, then 24,356 in 2023 before the 2024 total. Across 2021 to 2024, yearly totals moved lower from the 2022 count of 24,783 to the 2024 count of 23,159. The archive also includes 6,709 incidents in 2020 covering only 3 months and 16,151 incidents in 2025 covering 9 months through September 2025, which are partial windows and are not compared as annual changes.
Category breakdown
In 2024, the largest grouping was Other with 5,487 incidents, or 23.7% of the total. The source groups many incident types under Other, including Other crime with 3,052 incidents, Drugs with 1,662 incidents and Weapons offenses with 773 incidents. Next was Assault with 5,354 incidents, or 23.1%, followed by Theft with 4,898 incidents, or 21.1%. Beyond the top three, Fraud totaled 2,174 incidents, Theft from vehicle totaled 1,950 incidents and Auto theft totaled 1,531 incidents in 2024. Fraud represented 9.4%, Theft from vehicle 8.4% and Auto theft 6.6% of all 2024 reports. Assault accounted for 5,354 of the 6,028 violent-category incidents counted separately for 2024.
What this means
Greensboro's 2024 picture stands out for how close the top three groupings are: Other at 5,487 incidents and 23.7%, Assault at 5,354 and 23.1%, and Theft at 4,898 and 21.1%. Together they shape most of the 23,159 total. The year also continues a step down from 24,783 in 2022 and 24,356 in 2023 to 23,159 in 2024, after 24,753 in 2021. Fraud at 2,174, Theft from vehicle at 1,950 and Auto theft at 1,531 sit well below the top three.
FAQ
How many crimes were reported in Greensboro in 2024?
Greensboro recorded 23,159 police-reported incidents in calendar year 2024, which covers 12 months of data. That total equals 7,534.3 reported incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, based on the U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2024 population estimate of 307,381 for the city. It is a count of incidents reported to police, not a measure of personal risk.
What was the most common crime category in Greensboro in 2024?
Other was the top category in 2024 with 5,487 incidents, or 23.7% of the 23,159 total. The source groups many incident types under Other, including other crime with 3,052 incidents, drugs with 1,662 incidents, and weapons offenses with 773 incidents. Assault was next with 5,354 incidents, followed by theft with 4,898 incidents.
Did reported crime go up or down in Greensboro from 2023 to 2024?
Reported incidents declined between the two consecutive complete calendar years. Greensboro recorded 23,159 incidents in 2024 compared with 24,356 in 2023, a change of -4.9%. Both years include 12 months of data. The longer archive shows 24,753 incidents in 2021 and 24,783 in 2022, before the 2023 and 2024 totals.
Which Greensboro neighborhoods had the most reported incidents in 2024?
This 2024 summary for Greensboro does not rank named neighborhoods by incidents, so neighborhood-level comparisons are not shown here. The citywide total is 23,159 police-reported incidents for the 12 months of 2024. Readers reviewing neighborhood data elsewhere should check that boundaries and reporting periods match the 2024 citywide window used on TheCrimeMaps.
Where does the Greensboro crime data on TheCrimeMaps come from?
Incident figures on this page come from the Greensboro Police Department, the upstream open-data source for Greensboro. The 2024 figures cover 12 months of police-reported incidents, totaling 23,159 incidents including 6,028 violent-category incidents. Categories and counts reflect how the department reports incidents that are then compiled for TheCrimeMaps.
How current is the Greensboro crime data?
The archive on TheCrimeMaps extends through September 2025, the latest month with data. It includes 119,911 incidents for all years from 2020 to 2025 combined. For 2025, the archive so far lists 16,151 incidents across 9 months of data, which is a partial year and is not directly compared with the complete 12-month total of 23,159 in 2024.
Explore Greensboro
By category
- Greensboro Assault (27,207)
- Greensboro Sexual assault (747)
- Greensboro Robbery (2,339)
- Greensboro Homicide (182)
- Greensboro Burglary (6,335)
- Greensboro Auto theft (6,294)
- Greensboro Theft from vehicle (11,898)
- Greensboro Theft (24,785)
- Greensboro Fraud (11,211)
- Greensboro Other (28,913)
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