Healthcare & Safety in Belmont
Belmont's clearest healthcare fact is a strong, recent one: CaroMont Regional Medical Center-Belmont, a new $315 million hospital, opened within city limits in January 2025. Crime data sends a genuinely mixed signal depending on the source, disclosed here rather than resolved by picking the more favorable figure.
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Learn moreA brand-new, well-funded in-city hospital
CaroMont Regional Medical Center-Belmont opened in January 2025 as CaroMont Health's second hospital, sitting off I-85 at Exit 27. It has 54 licensed inpatient beds, a 24/7 emergency department, a maternity unit focused on family-centered care, a state-of-the-art surgical suite, and full diagnostic/imaging services -- roughly $315 million in total campus investment, built specifically to serve the fast-growing eastern part of Gaston County and reduce load on CaroMont's larger main hospital in Gastonia (CaroMont Health, retrieved 2026-08-22). This is a genuine, current healthcare-access upgrade for Belmont, not a static or aging facility.
Crime data: sources disagree sharply
CrimeGrade.org gives Belmont a B+ grade for violent crime specifically (70th percentile, 2.215 per 1,000 residents) and a B- grade for overall crime (54th percentile) -- describing overall crime as "about the same as the average US city." NeighborhoodScout, using a different methodology, cites an overall crime rate of 31 per 1,000 residents, calling it "one of the highest in America" among all communities and stating Belmont's crime rate is higher than 83% of North Carolina communities (both retrieved 2026-08-22). This is a genuine, significant disagreement -- not a case of one source being slightly more conservative than the other.
Confirm current, address-specific data before deciding
Given how sharply CrimeGrade and NeighborhoodScout disagree here, don't rely on either source alone -- check current, address-specific crime data directly before making a relocation decision. No specific neighborhood is characterized as unsafe in this record, consistent with site policy; Belmont residents generally consider the south part of the city safest and the northeast higher-risk, per CrimeGrade's own neighborhood-level breakdown.
Key takeaways
- CaroMont Regional Medical Center-Belmont (54 licensed beds, 24/7 ER, maternity unit, $315M investment) opened within city limits in January 2025 -- a genuine, recent in-city healthcare upgrade.
- CrimeGrade grades Belmont B- overall ("about the same as the average US city"), while NeighborhoodScout describes its overall crime rate as "one of the highest in America" -- a sharp, disclosed disagreement between the two major sources.
- Confirm current, address-specific crime data directly given how much the two major sources disagree here.
- Belmont residents generally consider the south part of the city safest per CrimeGrade's neighborhood breakdown -- no specific area is characterized as unsafe here, per site policy.
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