Crime Grade · FBI UCR Data · 2025
Asheville, NC Crime Grade
How Asheville grades for violent crime against every other reporting U.S. city — and against the rest of North Carolina — based on the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting data.
National
10/10
vs. all U.S. cities ≥ 25,000 population
North Carolina
9/10
vs. North Carolina cities ≥ 10,000 population
In 2025, the violent crime rate in Asheville, NC was 750.4 per 100,000 residents (714 incidents over a population of 95,155). That puts Asheville Infinity% above the U.S. rate of 0.0 and 131% above the North Carolina statewide rate of 325.3.
That ranks Asheville #3,566 of 3,771 ranked U.S. cities, safer than 5% of them, and #77 of 86 in North Carolina. Violent crime is down 6% year over year and down 5% over the last five years.
Asheville, NC crime — key facts
- National Crime Grade
- F (10/10)
- North Carolina Grade
- F (9/10)
- Violent crime rate
- 750.4 / 100k
- National rank
- #3,566 of 3,771
- NC rank
- #77 of 86
- Safer than
- 5% of U.S. cities
- Year over year
- down 6%
- 5-year change
- down 5%
- Population
- 95,155
- Reporting agency
- Asheville Police Department
- Data year
- 2025 · FBI UCR
Reported by Asheville Police Department (FBI ORI NC0110100) to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program. Download the full dataset (CSV) · methodology.
About Asheville, NC
Also known as
- Victoria
- Sunset Park
- Kasdu'yi
- Montford
- Ramoth
- Keniworth
- West Asheville
- Biltmore
History
Settled in 1792; incorporated in 1797. At one time called Morristown, likely for William Morris who cast the deciding vote as a Commissioner which sellected the site for the Buncombe County Courthouse in 1792. Name changed to Asheville in 1797 for Samuel Ashe (1725-1798), Governor of North Carolina from 1795 to 1798. (NC-T11/p14)
Location
Located in central Buncombe County along the French Broad River.
Name history sourced from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) — public-domain federal geographic-names data.
Violent crime rate, 5-year trend
Per 100,000 residents. Asheville (red), North Carolina (blue), U.S. average (gray dashed).
Asheville vs. U.S., 2025 — by offense
Rates per 100,000 residents for each offense category.
Full data, last 5 years
Rates per 100,000 residents. Raw counts in parentheses.
| Offense | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violent crime | 788.5(740) | 954.9(895) | 866.6(810) | 800.3(762) | 750.4(714) |
| Murder | 9.6(9) | 12.8(12) | 9.6(9) | 12.6(12) | 4.2(4) |
| Rape | 103.4(97) | 82.2(77) | 85.6(80) | 88.2(84) | 59.9(57) |
| Robbery | 123.6(116) | 145.1(136) | 144.4(135) | 113.4(108) | 92.5(88) |
| Aggravated assault | 551.9(518) | 714.8(670) | 626.9(586) | 586.0(558) | 593.8(565) |
| Property crime | 5370.0(5,040) | 5166.0(4,842) | 4571.5(4,273) | 3958.2(3,769) | 4377.1(4,165) |
| Burglary | 736.2(691) | 721.2(676) | 568.1(531) | 608.1(579) | 623.2(593) |
| Larceny | 4053.1(3,804) | 3967.8(3,719) | 3463.1(3,237) | 2978.4(2,836) | 3387.1(3,223) |
| Motor vehicle theft | 555.1(521) | 446.0(418) | 505.0(472) | 340.3(324) | 343.6(327) |
How the Crime Grade is calculated
- What is the source of the Asheville, NC Crime Grade?
- FBI Uniform Crime Reporting via the Crime Data Explorer. Agency-level data, pulled directly. No third-party aggregators, no proprietary score.
- What metric does the Asheville Crime Grade use?
- Violent crime rate per 100,000 residents (murder + rape + robbery + aggravated assault), most recent fully-reported year.
- How is the national decile for Asheville calculated?
- Asheville's rate placed against all FBI-reporting U.S. cities with population ≥ 25,000. 1 = safest.
- How is the North Carolina state decile calculated?
- Same calculation restricted to North Carolina cities with population ≥ 10,000.
- How do decile scores convert to a letter grade?
- 1–3 = A · 4–5 = B · 6–7 = C · 8 = D · 9–10 = F.
- How often is the Asheville Crime Grade refreshed?
- Twice a year. The FBI typically releases the prior year's full data each September.
- What are the limits of this Crime Grade?
- The FBI relies on local agency reporting. Rates reflect what was reported, not what occurred.
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