Photo: Cdtew at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0Mooresville has more property crime per resident than 79% of U.S. towns
The local count comes to 2.2 violent crimes and 20.7 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 5.1 and 27.9 in the rest of North Carolina. Weighing it all, Mooresville earns C for safety (#63 of 163 graded towns in North Carolina), with more crime per resident than 71% of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported over 2023 to 2025.
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. “Rest of NC” is every other North Carolina city and town in the FBI’s tables; the U.S. figure is the FBI’s national estimate as published, averaged over the three years. The FBI publishes no national homicide or robbery rate in our data, so those compare with all U.S. cities and towns in its tables.
What stands out about safety in Mooresville
Among North Carolina towns, closer to the middle
North Carolina’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Mooresville’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 61% of the 163 North Carolina towns we grade, against 29% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
A job center
Mooresville has 34,233 jobs based in town for 55,842 residents (Census LEHD), so some reports involve people who work or shop there rather than residents. How to read it ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Mooresville’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Both violent and property crime are higher than in most U.S. towns; violent crime is the closer of the two to typical. Its violent rate (2.2) is below the FBI’s national estimate (3.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Mooresville | Rest of North Carolina | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1.8 | 5.8 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 2.0 | 5.5 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 2.2 | 5.3 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 2.4 | 4.4 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Mooresville’s police reported 357 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 2.2 per 1,000 residents a year, against 5.1 in the rest of North Carolina and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Crime in Mooresville per 1,000 residents
Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Crimes reported to police in 2025 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.
And about 2 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Reported crime is steady
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| Year | Mooresville property | Rest of North Carolina property | Mooresville violent | Rest of North Carolina violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 21.3 | 28.9 | 1.8 | 5.8 |
| 2023 | 21.6 | 29.7 | 2.0 | 5.5 |
| 2024 | 21.5 | 28.9 | 2.2 | 5.3 |
| 2025 | 19.0 | 25.3 | 2.4 | 4.4 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident was steady from 2023 to 2025: the change is within ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of North Carolina.
1,147 crimes reported in 2025
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
131 violent and 1,016 property, as reported to the FBI by Mooresville’s police.
13 people died in crashes on Mooresville’s roads in 2019–2023
Mooresville had 13 fatal crashes in five years, in which 13 people died; 1 was a pedestrian. 3 died in crashes on an Interstate.
That is 5.0 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, below the median for North Carolina towns of 25,000–100,000 people (7.9, 33 towns).
Deaths are counted where the crash happened, not where the people lived: a highway through town adds through-traffic deaths, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Town rates sit below state and U.S. rates because a third of fatal crashes happen outside any town. Road safety is described here and is not part of the Safety Grade. Source: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023.
Mooresville and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mooresville | C | 2.2 | 20.7 |
| Lake Norman of Iredell | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Lake Norman of Iredell is an unincorporated community (a census-designated place) with no police department of its own.
North Carolina towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mooresville | C | 2.2 | 20.7 |
| Holly Springs | B+ | 1.0 | 8.6 |
| Wake Forest | B− | 1.3 | 12.9 |
| Kannapolis | C+ | 1.9 | 17.5 |
| Burlington | D | 8.0 | 31.3 |
| Rocky Mount | D− | 7.7 | 35.4 |
The five graded North Carolina towns closest to Mooresville’s population (55,842), by grade.
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- It’s reported crime. Only incidents reported to and recorded by police appear here. Many crimes are never reported to police.
- One number for all of Mooresville. A citywide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of the city to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Mooresville’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (53,489 in 2025); our figure for Mooresville is 55,842 (2025 Census estimate).
- Gaps are real gaps. A missing year means the department didn’t report a full year, not that nothing happened.
How the grade is calculated, for every town: How TownRatings grades safety →
Questions about safety in Mooresville
Is Mooresville, NC safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Mooresville reports more crime per resident than 71% of U.S. towns, a C Safety Grade and #63 of 163 in North Carolina. Its police reported 2.2 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 5.1 in the rest of North Carolina and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Mooresville?
2.2 violent and 20.7 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of North Carolina reports 5.1 and 27.9; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
How many homicides were there in Mooresville in 2025?
Mooresville’s police reported 1 homicides to the FBI for 2025, 1.9 per 100,000 residents. Across U.S. cities and towns in the FBI’s tables the 2025 figure was 4.6.
Who polices Mooresville?
Mooresville’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Mooresville”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
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Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 2025, and state and national rates. Counts are crimes reported to police, not convictions. The Safety Grade is our own summary of that data, not an official rating. Road deaths: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023. This isn’t an official statement of public safety. In an emergency, call 911.