Updated December 21, 2024 by the ABC11 Data Team
Updated December 21, 2024 by the ABC11 Data Team

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Homicides
Last 12 months
26
 Through December 19

Average Homicides
2020 to 2022
31

Per year

Homicide Rate
Last 12 months
5.5

Per 100,000 people

Average Homicide Rate
2020 to 2022
6.5

Per 100,000 people


Homicides over the last 12 months are trending down 33.3% compared to 2022, according to the latest data available from the Raleigh Police Department.

The murder rate over the last 12 months is down 15% compared to the annual average over the last three years, and the frequency of killings remains higher than it was before the pandemic.

The city averaged 2 homicides a month over the last year. In 2019, that number was 2 per month.

One way to think about the danger: three years ago, the murder rate was 5.8 per 100,000 residents. That’s about one third the likelihood of someone dying in a vehicle crash in North Carolina. In the wake of the pandemic, a person’s chance of being murdered in Raleigh has risen to about half of the risk of a fatal traffic crash.

The risk remains much lower than most other leading causes of death in the state.



The risk is not the same neighborhood to neighborhood.

ABC11’s data team looked at the Raleigh Police Department’s data by neighborhood from 2019 through December 19, 2024.

A closer look at homicides by police district

The map color-codes each neighborhood by the homicide rate over the last 12 months. The three darker blues highlight neighborhoods where the murder rate is higher than the citywide rate.

You can click any neighborhood to see detailed numbers or the buttons at the bottom of the map to switch between numbers and rates.

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