Where Caswell County stands
In numbers anyone can check. Every figure on these pages comes from a public state record — nothing private, nothing anonymous, nothing you have to take our word for.
★ The one that matters most
Caswell County tells the state it has the least crime in North Carolina. The courts, the prisons and the morgue all say otherwise.
Our county reported 71 crimes in all of 2024, every break-in, theft and assault, for the whole year. Per person that is 316 per 100,000, the lowest reported crime rate in North Carolina four years running, against a typical county's 1,610.
The courts tell a different story. Caswell convicts people at about three quarters of the state's rate. Counties carrying that conviction load report around 1,100 crimes per 100,000, which puts Caswell's real number at around 250, not 71. That is an estimate off public records, and it puts about seven in ten crimes here off the books. The same pattern shows up in the overdose records and in the schools.
Crimes reported per 100 people the courts convict
Overdoses recorded per overdose death
School suspensions per reported incident
Why are our county's numbers so far off the norm?
Three records kept by three different agencies: the courts, the health department and the schools. Every county around us clusters together on all three. Sources: NC State Bureau of Investigation, NC Department of Adult Correction, NC Department of Public Instruction, NC Department of Health and Human Services, and Caswell County's own commissioner minutes.
Three commitments. None of them need a budget fight. All of them can be checked by anybody, any time.
Count it.
Report it.
Publish it.
Every incident goes to the state every month, and Caswell's numbers get posted where anyone can look at them.
Right nowThere is no place online where a Caswell resident can see this county's crime numbers. The only public source is a state report that comes out once a year.
If it happens in Caswell, it gets counted in Caswell.
Track every overdose call this county responds to — including the ones that end up in Danville — so we know the real number.
Right nowWe have no hospital. Our ambulances drive to Virginia, and Virginia does not report to North Carolina. About half our overdoses are counted nowhere.
Parents get the real numbers.
Every school incident written up and reported, and the numbers shared with parents every semester.
Right nowThe district reported six incidents to the state last year, one of them a drug offense, and suspended students 450 times. That is 75 suspensions per reported incident against a state average of 20.
You cannot fix what you don't count.
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