NC
Southwestern Community College
0.46 incidents / 1,000 students
Sylva, NC · Clery Act 2024 · Public
Southwestern Community College
Across 2022–2024, Southwestern Community College reported 2 incidents in the Clery Criminal Offenses section, and the yearly count rose over that span (largest filed category: Arson). Nearby same-state same-level comparison: Robeson Community College.
- 0.46
- Incidents / 1k students
- #307
- Rank of 2,072
- #56
- NC rank
- 2,157
- Enrolled students
0.46 reported score-category incidents per 1,000 students
Southwestern Community College reports 0.46 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 - 44% below Charter College. Similar-enrollment scored peers: Charter College (0.00/1k); Berkeley College-New York (0.00/1k); Palmer College of Chiropractic (2.31/1k); La Roche University (0.46/1k); Peninsula College (1.39/1k). Same-state same-level set also includes Robeson Community College (0.00/1k); Brunswick Community College (0.00/1k); Richmond Community College (0.00/1k); Isothermal Community College (0.00/1k); Beaufort County Community College (0.00/1k); Stanly Community College (0.00/1k); Wilson Community College (0.55/1k); Western Piedmont Community College (0.00/1k). Largest Criminal Offenses total across filed years: Arson.
Data source U.S. Department of Education, OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
- incidents / 1,000 students
- 0.46
- of 2,072 ranked nationally
- #307
- safer than ranked campuses its size
- 85%
- Criminal Offenses, 2024
- 1
Source: U.S. Department of Education OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
Data updated August 2026
Clery Act plate
Sheet 199731 · Southwestern Community College 0.46/1k score rate · #307/2,072
RATE-QUIET · RANK-UPPER · ST-MID · PEER-FINISH · ZERO-NONE · TREND-UP · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-NONE
- RATE-QUIET 0.46/1k
- RANK-UPPER #307/2,072
- ST-MID #56 in state
- PEER-FINISH La Roche University · ±0.00
- ZERO-NONE Scored
- TREND-UP ↑ trend
- CAT-LEAD Arson
- ENR-SMALL 2,157
- FIRE-NONE No res filing
Nearest enrollment peer: La Roche University (+0.00/1k)
Southwestern Community College sheet RATE-QUIET · RANK-UPPER · ST-MID · PEER-FINISH · ZERO-NONE · TREND-UP · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-NONE · peer La Roche 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-QUIET · RANK-UPPER · ST-MID · PEER-FINISH · ZERO-NONE · TREND-UP · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-NONE. Nearest similar-enrollment peer is La Roche University (+0.00/1k). National rank #307 of 2,072 scored campuses. Instrument codes from this campus OPE sheet; compare similarly sized peers before treating any single rate as decisive.
Southwestern Community College reports 0.46 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 - 44% below Charter College. Similar-enrollment scored peers: Charter College (0.00/1k); Berkeley College-New York (0.00/1k); Palmer College of Chiropractic (2.31/1k); La Roche University (0.46/1k); Peninsula College (1.39/1k). Same-state same-level set also includes Robeson Community College (0.00/1k); Brunswick Community College (0.00/1k); Richmond Community College (0.00/1k); Isothermal Community College (0.00/1k); Beaufort County Community College (0.00/1k); Stanly Community College (0.00/1k); Wilson Community College (0.55/1k); Western Piedmont Community College (0.00/1k). Largest Criminal Offenses total across filed years: Arson.
Peer-rate neighbourhood around Southwestern Community College
Lowest/highest enrollment peers plus campuses nearest Southwestern on score-category rate. Full ladder: /rankings/safest-campuses.
- Charter College · lowest peer 0
Charter College — lowest peer
0 per 1,000 students
- Berkeley College-New York · near 0
Berkeley College-New York — near
0 per 1,000 students
- Southwestern Community College · this campus 0.46
Southwestern Community College — this campus
0.46 per 1,000 students
- La Roche University · near 0.46
La Roche University — near
0.46 per 1,000 students
- Palmer College of Chiropractic · highest peer
Palmer College of Chiropractic — highest peer
2.31 per 1,000 students
What this shows Neighbourhood of similar-enrollment peers around Southwestern Community College's 0.46/1k rate, not a full-corpus distribution reprint.
Reporting-period change
What changed in 2024
Southwestern Community College was unchanged from 1 to 1 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 2-year peers in this comparison, Southwestern Community College is larger than 64% and safer-reporting than 14% - 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 67, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 2: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 61, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 3: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 69, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 4: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 58, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 5: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 56, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 6: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 72, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 7: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 53, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 11
- Point 8: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 50, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 9: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 47, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 10: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 75, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 11: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 78, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 0
- Point 12: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 44, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
- Point 13: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 81, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 17
- Point 14: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 42, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 15: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 83, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 16: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 39, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 17: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 36, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 18: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 86, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 6
- Point 19: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 89, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 20: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 33, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 21: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 31, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 8
- Point 22: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 92, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 23: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 28, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 24: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 25, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 25: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 94, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 26: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 22, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 27: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 19, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 28: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 97, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 29: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 17, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 30: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 14, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 31: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 11, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 32: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 8, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 33: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 6, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 34: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 3, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 35: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 0, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 36: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 100, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Southwestern Community Col…: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 64, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 14
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| Campus | Enrollment | Rate / 1k | Size pct | Safety pct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mayland Community College | 850 | 0.00 | 0 | 19 |
| Martin Community College | 891 | 0.00 | 3 | 19 |
| Piedmont Community College | 896 | 0.00 | 6 | 19 |
| Tri-County Community College | 1,023 | 0.00 | 8 | 19 |
| Halifax Community College | 1,061 | 0.00 | 11 | 19 |
| Bladen Community College | 1,173 | 0.00 | 14 | 19 |
| Montgomery Community College | 1,184 | 0.00 | 17 | 19 |
| McDowell Technical Community College | 1,249 | 0.00 | 19 | 19 |
| NASCAR Technical Institute | 1,345 | 0.00 | 22 | 19 |
| Haywood Community College | 1,395 | 0.00 | 25 | 19 |
| Edgecombe Community College | 1,397 | 0.00 | 28 | 19 |
| Southwestern Community College (this campus) | 2,157 | 0.46 | 64 | 14 |
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 Southwestern Community College held level. The total is unchanged, but the mix behind it is not. Rising: Arson (0 to 1). Falling over the same period: Burglary (1 to 0).
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 Southwestern Community College
Across 3 reporting years, on-campus incidents were recorded in 2 Clery Act categories here: Arson and Burglary.
The remaining 9 categories were reported with no on-campus incidents, among them Aggravated Assault, Fondling, Incest and Motor Vehicle Theft. 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 onlySouthwestern Community College: Criminal Offenses by year
Rising
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| Period | On-campus incidents |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 0 |
| 2023 | 1 |
| 2024 | 1 |
| Crime Type | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arson | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Burglary | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Aggravated Assault | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Fondling | 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 |
| Rape | 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
Arrests & Disciplinary Actions
36 category-year records| Category | Year | Arrests | Discipline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drugs | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2024 | 1 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Weapons | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Weapons | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Weapons | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Weapons | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
Southwestern Community College 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).
AK
Charter College
0.00 incidents / 1,000 students
NY
Berkeley College-New York
0.00 incidents / 1,000 students
Cost context
Where Southwestern Community College sits on price and outcomes
At $5,207, Southwestern Community College's reported average net price is cheaper than 17% among 145 North Carolina colleges with a reported figure. The state median is $14,086.
- $5,207
- average net price
- $14,086
- North Carolina median
- 3.0×
- six-year earnings to median debt
Six years after enrolling, the median former student who received federal aid reports $31,660 - about 6.1 times one year of the reported net price here. On that ratio the cost is recovered quickly. 53% complete within six years, so roughly 47% leave without the credential - and those students still carry whatever they paid.
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
- $4,112
- Out-of-State Tuition
- $13,184
- Avg Net Price
- $5,207
- Median Debt
- $10,500
- Pell Grant Recipients
- 36%
Outcomes
- Median Earnings (6yr)
- $31,660
- Median Earnings (10yr)
- $34,145
- Loan Repayment (3yr)
- 55%
Source: IPEDS & College Scorecard. Methodology.
Similar Institutions
Showing 5 of 1,310 similar institutions by enrollment size.
Charter College
Anchorage, AK · 2,157 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
Berkeley College-New York
New York, NY · 2,156 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
Palmer College of Chiropractic
Davenport, IA · 2,161 enrolled
Safety Score 2.31
La Roche University
Pittsburgh, PA · 2,153 enrolled
Safety Score 0.46
Peninsula College
Port Angeles, WA · 2,153 enrolled
Safety Score 1.39
Closest by National Rank
Southwestern Community College (national rank #307) sits near Sinclair Community College (#308) and Mt Hood Community College (#306) on the scored national list, nearest by rank, not by size or state.
Sinclair Community College
Dayton, OH
National Rank #308
Mt Hood Community College
Gresham, OR
National Rank #306
Central Oregon Community College
Bend, OR
National Rank #305
La Roche University
Pittsburgh, PA
National Rank #309
Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College
Asheville, NC
National Rank #304
Nationwide campuses with similar scale or Clery rate
Two Clery-derived peer sets for Southwestern Community College, 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)
Bay de Noc Community College
Escanaba, MI · 2,149 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
American Career College-Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA · 2,168 enrolled
Safety score 0.92
Central Alabama Community College
Alexander City, AL · 2,140 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
Mid-Plains Community College
North Platte, NE · 2,140 enrolled
Safety score 0.47
Redlands Community College
El Reno, OK · 2,184 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
Highland Community College
Highland, KS · 2,190 enrolled
Safety score 2.74
Canadian Valley Technology Center
El Reno, OK · 2,197 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
Mountain Empire Community College
Big Stone Gap, VA · 2,116 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
Similar 2024 Clery rate (nationwide)
Central Oregon Community College
Bend, OR · 4,332 enrolled
Safety score 0.46
Riverside City College
Riverside, CA · 21,730 enrolled
Safety score 0.46
Los Angeles Mission College
Sylmar, CA · 10,690 enrolled
Safety score 0.47
De Anza College
Cupertino, CA · 17,425 enrolled
Safety score 0.46
Mesa Community College
Mesa, AZ · 17,077 enrolled
Safety score 0.47
Community College of Allegheny County
Pittsburgh, PA · 10,609 enrolled
Safety score 0.47
Reedley College
Reedley, CA · 8,796 enrolled
Safety score 0.45
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Southwestern Community College safe?
Southwestern Community College has a safety score of 0.46 (2024 on-campus Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 enrolled students) and ranks #307 nationally out of 2,072 ranked institutions - nearest similar-enrollment comparison: Charter College (0.00/1k). Same-state same-level set: Robeson Community College (0.00/1k); Brunswick Community College (0.00/1k); Richmond Community College (0.00/1k); Isothermal Community College (0.00/1k); Beaufort County Community College (0.00/1k); Stanly Community College (0.00/1k); Wilson Community College (0.55/1k); Western Piedmont Community College (0.00/1k).
What crimes are reported at Southwestern Community College?
For calendar year 2024, Southwestern Community College reported Arson (1) in the Criminal Offenses section. Every other category in that section was reported at zero; other Clery tables are separate.
How does Southwestern Community College compare to similar schools?
Southwestern Community College reports 44% fewer 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 than Charter College. Scored similar-enrollment peers on this page: Charter College (0.00/1k); Berkeley College-New York (0.00/1k); Palmer College of Chiropractic (2.31/1k); La Roche University (0.46/1k); Peninsula College (1.39/1k). Same-state same-level set: Robeson Community College (0.00/1k); Brunswick Community College (0.00/1k); Richmond Community College (0.00/1k); Isothermal Community College (0.00/1k); Beaufort County Community College (0.00/1k); Stanly Community College (0.00/1k); Wilson Community College (0.55/1k); Western Piedmont Community College (0.00/1k).
Does Southwestern Community College have fire safety data?
Southwestern Community College has no on-campus residential fire filing in this Clery release.
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