Crime & Safety in Concord
Concord's two most-cited crime-data sources broadly agree that Concord is reasonably, if not exceptionally, safe -- a real point of contrast with Gastonia's much higher-crime reads from the same two sources (see that city's crime-safety topic).
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Learn moreCrimeGrade.org's read
CrimeGrade.org (data updated March 2025) cites Concord's violent crime rate at 3.617 incidents per 1,000 residents and its property crime rate at 15.87 per 1,000 in a typical year.
NeighborhoodScout's read: mixed, but not alarming
NeighborhoodScout (updated March 2026) cites an overall crime rate of 13 per 1,000 residents for Concord, describing it as "considerably higher than the national average" on that composite figure, while separately citing a violent crime rate of 2 per 1,000 -- "about average for all communities in America." The overall-crime and violent-crime reads point in somewhat different directions here (elevated overall, average on violent crime specifically) -- both figures are disclosed rather than collapsed into one verdict.
A city safety grade of B-, with strong neighborhood-level grades
Concord carries an overall crime safety grade of B- as of 2026 and is generally described as a safe place to live. Notably, every individual neighborhood analyzed in the 2026 data earned a Grade A or better -- Christenbury earned a perfect A+ and The Mills at Rocky River earned a solid A -- suggesting the citywide B- reflects averaging across a still-broadly-safe set of neighborhoods rather than any specific high-crime pocket dragging the city grade down.
Real east-west variation within the city
Residents generally consider the western part of Concord the safest, with victimization-risk estimates ranging from about 1-in-167 in central neighborhoods to about 1-in-539 in the west, per doorprofit.com's 2026 analysis. Check a specific address directly with CrimeGrade.org and NeighborhoodScout rather than relying on the citywide B- grade alone, and note that this pattern of real, if secondary, east-west variation is consistent with block-level variance in most cities.
Key takeaways
- CrimeGrade.org (March 2025 data) cites Concord's violent crime rate at 3.617 per 1,000 residents and property crime at 15.87 per 1,000.
- NeighborhoodScout (March 2026) cites an overall crime rate of 13 per 1,000 ("considerably higher than the national average" by that composite measure) alongside a violent crime rate of 2 per 1,000 ("about average") -- two different readings from the same source, both disclosed.
- Concord carries an overall crime safety grade of B- as of 2026, but every individual neighborhood analyzed earned Grade A or better (Christenbury A+, The Mills at Rocky River A) -- the B- reflects citywide averaging, not one specific high-crime area.
- Real east-west variation exists within Concord (western neighborhoods read safer than central ones by one 2026 analysis) -- check a specific address directly with both named sources rather than relying on the citywide grade alone.
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