North Carolina’s crime rates are slightly higher than national rates, but its reported experience with crime is below national averages. The state’s violent crime rate of 3.8 is barely above the national rate of 3.7, but its property crime rate of 24.9 is almost three points higher than the national rate of 22.0.

Reported experience with violent crime remained the same year over year, with 11% of respondents indicating a personal run-in with violent crime incident in the past 12 months. Encounters of property crime rose by five points, from 19% last year to 24% in this year’s report.

Both experiential numbers fall under national averages. Across the country, 12% reported a personal experience of violent crime and 26% reported being personally affected by property crime.