# Murders in North Carolina

Murders in North Carolina was 723 in 2025. Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Uniform Crime Reporting Program.

- Indicator id: `murders`
- Place id: `us-state-37`
- Unit: count
- Definition: Estimated number of murders and nonnegligent manslaughters known to law enforcement. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
- Note: UCR definition: the willful killing of one human being by another, excluding deaths caused by negligence, suicides, accidents and justifiable homicides. For other countries use homicide_rate (UNODC). FBI estimates for the whole population: agencies that did not report, or reported part of the year, are filled in by the FBI. The FBI revises earlier years in each annual release, and from 2021 the estimates are built from incident-based (NIBRS) reports. The national series has no values for 2017 to 2020 in the FBI estimates file.
- Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Uniform Crime Reporting Program, FBI UCR Summary Reporting System estimated crimes, 1979 on: murder and nonnegligent manslaughter (https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/downloads)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/federal-bureau-of-investigation
- Retrieved: 2026-10-18
- License: Public domain (US Department of Justice); citation of the source appreciated
- Citation: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer. FBI UCR Summary Reporting System estimated crimes, 1979 on: murder and nonnegligent manslaughter. https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/downloads. Retrieved 2026-10-18.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/en/murders/north-carolina
- API: https://invokely.ai/api/v1/series?indicator=murders&place=us-state-37

| Period | count |
|---|---:|
| 2025 | 723 |
| 2024 | 840 |
| 2023 | 875 |
| 2022 | 871 |
| 2021 | 995 |
| 2020 | 852 |
| 2019 | 653 |
| 2018 | 574 |
| 2017 | 622 |
| 2016 | 678 |
| 2015 | 517 |
| 2014 | 498 |
| 2013 | 463 |
| 2012 | 479 |
| 2011 | 498 |
| 2010 | 474 |
| 2009 | 489 |
| 2008 | 599 |
| 2007 | 584 |
| 2006 | 539 |
| 2005 | 585 |
| 2004 | 532 |
| 2003 | 506 |
| 2002 | 548 |
| 2001 | 505 |
| 2000 | 560 |
| 1999 | 552 |
| 1998 | 612 |
| 1997 | 614 |
| 1996 | 619 |
| 1995 | 677 |
| 1994 | 772 |
| 1993 | 785 |
| 1992 | 723 |
| 1991 | 769 |
| 1990 | 711 |
| 1989 | 584 |
| 1988 | 510 |
| 1987 | 519 |
| 1986 | 515 |
| 1985 | 520 |
| 1984 | 539 |
| 1983 | 490 |
| 1982 | 545 |
| 1981 | 541 |
| 1980 | 619 |
| 1979 | 600 |