NC
Elizabeth City State University
10.63 incidents / 1,000 students
Elizabeth City, NC · Clery Act 2024 · Public
Elizabeth City State University
Across 2022–2024, Elizabeth City State University reported 36 incidents in the Clery Criminal Offenses section, and the yearly count fell over that span (largest filed category: Burglary). Nearby same-state same-level comparison: Lenoir-Rhyne University.
- 10.63
- Incidents / 1k students
- #1,950
- Rank of 2,072
- #107
- NC rank
- 2,258
- Enrolled students
10.63 reported score-category incidents per 1,000 students
Elizabeth City State University reports 10.63 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 - 192% above University of Rio Grande. Similar-enrollment scored peers: University of Rio Grande (0.00/1k); Point University (3.10/1k); Lenoir-Rhyne University (4.88/1k); Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences (0.00/1k); Susquehanna University (10.20/1k). Same-state same-level set also includes Lenoir-Rhyne University (4.88/1k); University of Mount Olive (0.00/1k); Davidson College (6.96/1k); Methodist University (9.33/1k); Queens University of Charlotte (6.25/1k); Strayer University-North Carolina (0.00/1k); Meredith College (3.41/1k); University of North Carolina Asheville (8.84/1k). Largest Criminal Offenses total across filed years: Burglary.
Data source U.S. Department of Education, OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
- incidents / 1,000 students
- 10.63
- of 2,072 ranked nationally
- #1,950
- report fewer incidents than this campus
- 94%
- Criminal Offenses, 2024
- 12
Source: U.S. Department of Education OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
Data updated August 2026
Clery Act plate
Sheet 198507 · Elizabeth City State University 10.63/1k score rate · #1,950/2,072
RATE-HOT · RANK-BOTTOM · ST-MID · ABOVE-PEER · ZERO-NONE · TREND-DOWN · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-REPORT
- RATE-HOT 10.63/1k
- RANK-BOTTOM #1,950/2,072
- ST-MID #107 in state
- ABOVE-PEER Susquehanna University · +0.43
- ZERO-NONE Scored
- TREND-DOWN ↓ 8%
- CAT-LEAD Burglary
- ENR-SMALL 2,258
- FIRE-REPORT 1 fire
Nearest enrollment peer: Susquehanna University (-0.43/1k)
Elizabeth City State University sheet RATE-HOT · RANK-BOTTOM · ST-MID · ABOVE-PEER · ZERO-NONE · TREND-DOWN · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-REPORT · peer Susquehanna University. Codes from this campus OPE filing: score-category rate, national/state rank, named enrollment peer, zero posture, Criminal Offenses trend, lead category, enrollment band, fire filing. Not a moving recommendation.
Clery plate RATE-HOT · RANK-BOTTOM · ST-MID · ABOVE-PEER · ZERO-NONE · TREND-DOWN · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-REPORT. Nearest similar-enrollment peer is Susquehanna University (-0.43/1k). National rank #1,950 of 2,072 scored campuses. Instrument codes from this campus OPE sheet; compare similarly sized peers before treating any single rate as decisive.
Elizabeth City State University reports 10.63 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 - 192% above University of Rio Grande. Similar-enrollment scored peers: University of Rio Grande (0.00/1k); Point University (3.10/1k); Lenoir-Rhyne University (4.88/1k); Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences (0.00/1k); Susquehanna University (10.20/1k). Same-state same-level set also includes Lenoir-Rhyne University (4.88/1k); University of Mount Olive (0.00/1k); Davidson College (6.96/1k); Methodist University (9.33/1k); Queens University of Charlotte (6.25/1k); Strayer University-North Carolina (0.00/1k); Meredith College (3.41/1k); University of North Carolina Asheville (8.84/1k). Largest Criminal Offenses total across filed years: Burglary.
Peer-rate neighbourhood around Elizabeth City State
Lowest/highest enrollment peers plus campuses nearest Elizabeth on score-category rate. Full ladder: /rankings/safest-campuses.
- University of Rio Grande · lowest peer 0
University of Rio Grande — lowest peer
0 per 1,000 students
- Point University · near 3.1
Point University — near
3.1 per 1,000 students
- Lenoir-Rhyne University · near
Lenoir-Rhyne University — near
4.88 per 1,000 students
- Susquehanna University · near
Susquehanna University — near
10.2 per 1,000 students
- Elizabeth City State University · this campus · highest
Elizabeth City State University — this campus · highest
10.63 per 1,000 students
What this shows Neighbourhood of similar-enrollment peers around Elizabeth City State University's 10.63/1k rate, not a full-corpus distribution reprint.
Reporting-period change
What changed in 2024
Elizabeth City State University increased from 11 to 12 reported on-campus incidents between the 2023 and 2024 reporting years in the U.S. Department of Education OPE Campus Safety Survey.
This is a change in reported incidents, not a measure of individual safety. Enrollment, reporting practice, and category coverage can affect the count.
See national reporting-year changesSignature insight · size does not equal danger
Campus size vs reported safety rate
Among 37 NC 4-year peers in this comparison, Elizabeth City State University is larger than 86% and safer-reporting than 11% - the larger, higher-reporting quadrant. Axes are within-sample percentiles so outliers share the same frame; a higher safety percentile means a lower Clery incidents-per-1,000 rate.
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- Point 1: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 83, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 44
- Point 2: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 81, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 75
- Point 3: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 78, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 25
- Point 4: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 75, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 14
- Point 5: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 72, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 31
- Point 6: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 89, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 75
- Point 7: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 69, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 58
- Point 8: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 92, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 17
- Point 9: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 67, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 50
- Point 10: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 94, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 75
- Point 11: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 64, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 33
- Point 12: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 61, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 28
- Point 13: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 58, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
- Point 14: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 97, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 72
- Point 15: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 56, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 64
- Point 16: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 53, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 53
- Point 17: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 50, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 75
- Point 18: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 47, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 39
- Point 19: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 44, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 47
- Point 20: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 100, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 56
- Point 21: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 42, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 22: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 39, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 0
- Point 23: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 36, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 69
- Point 24: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 33, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 42
- Point 25: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 31, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 75
- Point 26: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 28, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 22
- Point 27: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 25, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 75
- Point 28: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 22, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 75
- Point 29: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 19, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 67
- Point 30: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 17, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 61
- Point 31: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 14, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 36
- Point 32: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 11, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 6
- Point 33: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 8, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 75
- Point 34: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 6, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 8
- Point 35: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 3, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 75
- Point 36: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 0, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 75
- Elizabeth City State Unive…: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 86, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 11
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| Campus | Enrollment | Rate / 1k | Size pct | Safety pct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Galen Health Institutes-Asheville | 253 | 0.00 | 0 | 75 |
| Manna University | 268 | 0.00 | 3 | 75 |
| Salem College | 549 | 12.75 | 6 | 8 |
| Carolinas College of Health Sciences | 632 | 0.00 | 8 | 75 |
| Chowan University | 675 | 13.33 | 11 | 6 |
| William Peace University | 722 | 5.54 | 14 | 36 |
| Warren Wilson College | 791 | 2.53 | 17 | 61 |
| Brevard College | 875 | 2.29 | 19 | 67 |
| Carolina University | 880 | 0.00 | 22 | 75 |
| Pfeiffer University | 889 | 0.00 | 25 | 75 |
| Lees-McRae College | 910 | 7.69 | 28 | 22 |
| Elizabeth City State University (this campus) | 2,258 | 10.63 | 86 | 11 |
Sample of 12 campuses from the plot (sorted by enrollment). Source: U.S. Department of Education OPE Campus Safety Survey + IPEDS enrollment. Rate = on-campus Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 students; lower is safer-reporting, not a personal-risk forecast.
What changed between 2023 and 2024
Reported on-campus incidents at Elizabeth City State University rose from 11 to 12 (+9%). The increase shows up in Rape (2 to 6). Falling over the same period: Aggravated Assault (2 to 1), Burglary (2 to 1) and Fondling (5 to 4).
This describes reported incidents, not crime. Clery counts move with reporting policy, awareness campaigns and how a campus staffs its security authorities, so a rise can reflect better capture of reports and a fall can reflect worse capture. One year of movement at a single campus is not a trend.
What actually gets reported at Elizabeth City State University
Across 3 reporting years, on-campus incidents were recorded in 4 Clery Act categories here: Burglary, Fondling, Rape and Aggravated Assault.
The remaining 7 categories were reported with no on-campus incidents, among them Arson, Incest, Motor Vehicle Theft and Murder / Non-Negligent Manslaughter. Under the Clery Act that zero is an affirmative report that nothing in the category occurred, not an absence of data, which is why the table below lists those rows rather than dropping them.
Counts describe incidents reported under the Clery Act for the on-campus geography. Reporting practice varies between institutions, so counts are not a direct measure of relative safety.
Crime Statistics by Year
11 categories 3 reporting years on-campus onlyElizabeth City State University: Criminal Offenses by year
Declining 8% (13 → 12 incidents)
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| Period | On-campus incidents |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 13 |
| 2023 | 11 |
| 2024 | 12 |
| Crime Type | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burglary | 1 | 2 | 9 |
| Fondling | 4 | 5 | 2 |
| Rape | 6 | 2 | 1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Incest | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Murder / Non-Negligent Manslaughter | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Negligent Manslaughter | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Statutory Rape | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Source: US Dept of Education OPE Campus Safety Survey. Table figures show the Criminal Offenses section; other Clery tables are separate
Fire Safety
| Year | Fires | Inj. | Deaths | Cat I | Cat II |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Arrests & Disciplinary Actions
9 category-year records| Category | Year | Arrests | Discipline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drugs | 2024 | 2 | 30 |
| Liquor | 2024 | 1 | 28 |
| Weapons | 2024 | 6 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2023 | 8 | 17 |
| Liquor | 2023 | 2 | 26 |
| Weapons | 2023 | 4 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2022 | 10 | 20 |
| Liquor | 2022 | 2 | 32 |
| Weapons | 2022 | 3 | 7 |
Elizabeth City State University vs peer institutions
Side-by-side safety scores for 3 peers of similar enrollment
Scores are $2024 Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 enrolled students (lower is fewer in those categories).
OH
University of Rio Grande
0.00 incidents / 1,000 students
GA
Point University
3.10 incidents / 1,000 students
Cost context
Where Elizabeth City State University sits on price and outcomes
At $6,364, Elizabeth City State University's reported average net price is cheaper than 21% among 145 North Carolina colleges with a reported figure. The state median is $14,086.
- $6,364
- average net price
- $14,086
- North Carolina median
- 1.6×
- six-year earnings to median debt
- $11,417
- reported income-bracket spread
Aid here is steeply income-scaled. Families reporting under $30,000 of income record a net price of $4,246, while those above $110,000 record $15,663 - roughly 3.7 times as much. A published average of $6,364 therefore describes very few families well; the bracket nearest your own income is the more useful figure.
Six years after enrolling, the median former student who received federal aid reports $33,776 - about 5.3 times one year of the reported net price here. On that ratio the cost is recovered quickly.
Average net price reflects grant and scholarship aid for aided students, not a personal offer. Earnings cover former students who received federal aid; neither measure predicts an individual's outcome.
Academic & Financial Profile
Tuition & Costs
- In-State Tuition
- $6,536
- Out-of-State Tuition
- $10,536
- Avg Net Price
- $6,364
- Median Debt
- $21,463
- Pell Grant Recipients
- 54%
Admissions
- Acceptance Rate
- 64%
- SAT Average
- 1019
- SAT Math Range
- 450-520
- ACT Average
- 17
- ACT Range
- 16-22
Outcomes
- 4-Year Graduation Rate
- 46%
- Retention Rate
- 77%
- Median Earnings (6yr)
- $33,776
- Median Earnings (10yr)
- $40,026
- Loan Repayment (3yr)
- 36%
Source: IPEDS & College Scorecard. Methodology.
Similar Institutions
Showing 5 of 1,301 similar institutions by enrollment size.
University of Rio Grande
Rio Grande, OH · 2,258 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
Point University
West Point, GA · 2,260 enrolled
Safety Score 3.10
Lenoir-Rhyne University
Hickory, NC · 2,256 enrolled
Safety Score 4.88
Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences
Tulsa, OK · 2,256 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
Susquehanna University
Selinsgrove, PA · 2,255 enrolled
Safety Score 10.20
Closest by National Rank
Elizabeth City State University (national rank #1950) sits near Earlham College (#1949) and Babson College (#1951) on the scored national list, nearest by rank, not by size or state.
Nationwide campuses with similar scale or Clery rate
Two Clery-derived peer sets for Elizabeth City State University, both outside NC so the neighborhoods are not state containment (Similar Institutions and national-rank neighbors above stay enrollment- or rank-based).
Similar enrollment (nationwide)
University of Rio Grande
Rio Grande, OH · 2,258 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences
Tulsa, OK · 2,256 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
Point University
West Point, GA · 2,260 enrolled
Safety score 3.10
Seattle Pacific University
Seattle, WA · 2,261 enrolled
Safety score 13.27
Susquehanna University
Selinsgrove, PA · 2,255 enrolled
Safety score 10.20
Capital University
Columbus, OH · 2,263 enrolled
Safety score 5.30
Mount St. Joseph University
Cincinnati, OH · 2,265 enrolled
Safety score 0.88
Kenyon College
Gambier, OH · 2,249 enrolled
Safety score 8.89
Similar 2024 Clery rate (nationwide)
Earlham College
Richmond, IN · 753 enrolled
Safety score 10.62
Saint Michael's College
Colchester, VT · 1,323 enrolled
Safety score 10.58
Babson College
Wellesley, MA · 3,932 enrolled
Safety score 10.68
Centre College
Danville, KY · 1,404 enrolled
Safety score 10.68
Knox College
Galesburg, IL · 1,136 enrolled
Safety score 10.56
Middlebury College
Middlebury, VT · 2,803 enrolled
Safety score 10.70
Texas Lutheran University
Seguin, TX · 1,423 enrolled
Safety score 10.54
Ithaca College
Ithaca, NY · 4,767 enrolled
Safety score 10.49
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Elizabeth City State University safe?
Elizabeth City State University has a safety score of 10.63 (2024 on-campus Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 enrolled students) and ranks #1,950 nationally out of 2,072 ranked institutions - nearest similar-enrollment comparison: University of Rio Grande (0.00/1k). Same-state same-level set: Lenoir-Rhyne University (4.88/1k); University of Mount Olive (0.00/1k); Davidson College (6.96/1k); Methodist University (9.33/1k); Queens University of Charlotte (6.25/1k); Strayer University-North Carolina (0.00/1k); Meredith College (3.41/1k); University of North Carolina Asheville (8.84/1k).
What crimes are reported at Elizabeth City State University?
For calendar year 2024, Elizabeth City State University reported Rape (6), Fondling (4), Aggravated Assault (1) and Burglary (1) in the Criminal Offenses section. Every other category in that section was reported at zero; other Clery tables are separate.
How does Elizabeth City State University compare to similar schools?
Elizabeth City State University reports 192% more 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 than University of Rio Grande. Scored similar-enrollment peers on this page: University of Rio Grande (0.00/1k); Point University (3.10/1k); Lenoir-Rhyne University (4.88/1k); Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences (0.00/1k); Susquehanna University (10.20/1k). Same-state same-level set: Lenoir-Rhyne University (4.88/1k); University of Mount Olive (0.00/1k); Davidson College (6.96/1k); Methodist University (9.33/1k); Queens University of Charlotte (6.25/1k); Strayer University-North Carolina (0.00/1k); Meredith College (3.41/1k); University of North Carolina Asheville (8.84/1k).
Does Elizabeth City State University have fire safety data?
Yes. Elizabeth City State University reports fire safety data for on-campus residential facilities, including total fires, injuries, deaths, and fire damage categories. 1 fire was reported in the most recent year.
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