Photo: Pubdog · Public domainOcean Isle Beach has no grade of its own; Shallotte, 6 miles away, is the nearest that does
A 25-mile circle around it holds 2 towns with a grade. Ocean Isle Beach’s police reported to the FBI for 2023 and 2024 but not 2025, so there is no Safety Grade: the grade needs all three years, 2023–2025. Within 10 miles, Shallotte is the one town with a Safety Grade.
For every 1,000 residents, about 30 property crimes reported
Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2024
Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2024
Crimes reported to police in 2024 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.
And about 1 violent crime, in 2024. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
The years Ocean Isle Beach’s police reported
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| Year | Ocean Isle Beach | Rest of North Carolina | Ocean Isle Beach | Rest of North Carolina |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | not reported | 28.9 | not reported | 5.7 |
| 2023 | 17.9 | 29.6 | 0.0 | 5.5 |
| 2024 | 30.4 | 28.8 | 1.0 | 5.3 |
| 2025 | not reported | 25.2 | not reported | 4.4 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents, against the rest of North Carolina. A year the department didn’t report in full is a gap, not a zero.
32 crimes reported in 2024
2024 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
1 violent and 31 property, as reported to the FBI by Ocean Isle Beach’s police.
The nearest North Carolina towns with a Safety Grade
| Town | Grade | Distance | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shallotte | D | 6 mi | 2.9 | 44.4 |
| Boiling Spring Lakes | B− | 22 mi | 2.1 | 12.0 |
| Leland | B+ | 30 mi | 1.1 | 7.4 |
| Tabor City | C | 30 mi | 2.7 | 18.1 |
| Carolina Beach | C− | 32 mi | 3.5 | 18.1 |
| Whiteville | D− | 33 mi | 8.7 | 85.4 |
Straight-line distance from the center of Ocean Isle Beach. Nearby towns can differ a lot from Ocean Isle Beach.
Each town’s own police figures, per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
No one died in a crash on Ocean Isle Beach’s roads in 2019–2023
That is about what is typical for North Carolina towns of 2,500–5,000 people: at their median rate (7.4 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Ocean Isle Beach’s size would see about 0 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Ocean Isle Beach’s own rate (0.0) is context, not a ranking.
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.
Ocean Isle Beach and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
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 Ocean Isle Beach. A town-wide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of town to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Ocean Isle Beach’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (1,019 in 2024); our figure for Ocean Isle Beach is 940 (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 Ocean Isle Beach
Is Ocean Isle Beach, NC safe?
There is no Safety Grade for Ocean Isle Beach. The nearest North Carolina towns with a grade are Shallotte (D, 6 mi), Boiling Spring Lakes (B−, 22 mi), Leland (B+, 30 mi).
Who polices Ocean Isle Beach?
Ocean Isle Beach’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Ocean Isle Beach”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
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Neighbors looking out for each other in Ocean Isle Beach.
Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 2024, 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.