North Carolina Sex Offender Registry Search
About 29,800 people are on the North Carolina register. Type your address and see, for free, how many live near your home.
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Public registry information. It may not be used for employment, tenant, credit or insurance decisions, or to harass or threaten anyone.
registered within 1 mile of this address
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Check the streets on your route for registered sex offenders before you go. Search any address and see who is registered nearby, with photos and official record links.
Search the North Carolina registry by name. Checking a new babysitter, date or neighbor? Type their name.
Search North Carolina's registry — and every other US registry at the same time. Continuously updated records with photographs, addresses, offenses and a link to the official registry entry for every match. Type a name; no code needed.
A Background Check is $9.99, paid once: the name plus where they live or work, across 58 registries and criminal records. Building this into a product? For developers: the API.
Photographs and official records
Matches come back as people, not rows — the registry photograph, date of birth, addresses and offense, with a link to the official North Carolina record so you can verify at the source.
The whole country in one search
People move. One search here covers North Carolina and every other US registry at once, so a registration in Georgia and South Carolina shows up on someone now living in Charlotte.
Every search, kept
Each check is stored with the results you saw — an audit trail you can reopen, share with teammates, and stand behind later. Upload a CSV to screen a whole list in one pass.
What the North Carolina sex offender registry shows you, and what it leaves out. Knowing both keeps a search useful and fair.
What a North Carolina registry search shows
- The person's registry photograph, name and any other names they use
- Their age, and their date of birth as North Carolina publishes it
- Home, work and school addresses, each labelled
- The offense they were convicted of, and when
- Their risk level and whether they are keeping up with registration
- A link to the official North Carolina Sex Offender Registry (SBI) entry so you can confirm it
What it cannot tell you
- Whether someone is safe. The registry lists a conviction, not a prediction
- Anyone who was never convicted, or whose requirement has ended
- Other criminal history. For that, see North Carolina criminal records
- A reason to harass anyone. Using registry information to threaten someone is a crime
What registered sex offenders in North Carolina are registered for. About half are registered for sexual offense against a child.
The most common offense among registrants in North Carolina on our index is sexual offense against a child (49%), followed by rape or sexual assault (32%). Based on 31,308 registrants whose registry entry names the offense.
Age today
Under 30: 6% · 30–39: 18% · 40–49: 26% · 50–59: 24% · 60–69: 18% · 70 and over: 8%
Who is listed
97% men, 3% women. 100% of entries include a registry photo.
- Sexual offense against a child49%
- Rape or sexual assault32%
- Child sexual abuse material10%
- Soliciting or enticing a minor3%
- Kidnapping or unlawful restraint3%
- Statutory (age-of-consent) offense2%
- Incest1%
- Unwanted sexual contact1%
Categories are our grouping of the offense each registry publishes for a registrant; a person can appear in more than one category, so shares can add up to more than 100%. Figures as of 2026-10-08. What each category means.
Searching the North Carolina state site vs searching here for North Carolina sex offenders. Both are free to start; here is what is different.
North Carolina's own public search is North Carolina Sex Offender Registry (SBI) — free, official, and the right place for a one-off look at a single state. Here is what changes when you run the same search here instead.
| On the North Carolina state site | Searching here | |
|---|---|---|
| Coverage per search | North Carolina only. A registration in any other state never appears. | Every US registry at once — the 50 states, DC and the territories. 58 registries in one search. |
| Your search history | Nothing is saved. Checking the same person next month means starting over, with no record you ever looked. | Every search is stored with the results you saw — a real audit trail you can reopen. |
| Narrowing a common name | Whatever the search form offers, one attempt at a time. | Date of birth, age give-or-take, city, ZIP, street address — and misspellings caught when you want them. |
| Checking a whole list | One name at a time, by hand. | Upload a CSV and screen everyone in one pass. |
| Working as a team | No accounts, so no way to share what has been checked. | Add teammates to one workspace with a shared history. |
| Building it into your product | No API. | A full REST API on the same data, when you are ready for it. |
| Near your address | A map you search area by area. | A free count of the registered sex offenders near your address, then everyone near it with photos on a map for $9.99 once. |
| Alerts | No alerts. You check again yourself. | Family Watch: up to 3 addresses, an email when someone registers, moves in or moves out near any of them. $34.99 a year, cancel any time. |
| Confirming a match | You are already on the official record. | Every match links straight to its official North Carolina Sex Offender Registry (SBI) entry. |
Check your address free — create an account and see how many registered sex offenders live near it in under a minute.
How many registered sex offenders live near your North Carolina address?
Enter your address and you will see how many live near it.
Checking one person? A Background Check is $9.99 — name plus where they live or work, across 58 registries and criminal records.Run a Background Check
Free: the count near your address. Optional: see everyone near it — $9.99 once, or Family Watch, $34.99 a year for 3 addresses with email alerts.
Public registry information. It may not be used for employment, tenant, credit or insurance decisions, or to harass or threaten anyone.
North Carolina sex offender search coverage: the North Carolina dataset, specifically. What a search here covers.
| Scope | North Carolina is in every search by default, and one setting narrows to it alone — in the dashboard a dropdown, in the API jurisdictions: ["NC"]. |
|---|---|
| Date-of-birth matching | A date-of-birth criterion in North Carolina resolves at full-date precision and returns dob_match. Match strength is a label on every record — dob_match — rather than a yes or no, so you set your own threshold. 39 of the 56 jurisdictions we cover resolve it the way North Carolina does. |
| Best criteria to send | Send dob whenever you hold one — it is accepted in North Carolina exactly as it is everywhere else, and it narrows rather than filters, so a record with thinner birth evidence still comes back on the name. In North Carolina it is the strongest single narrowing criterion available, returning dob_match. |
| Location search | Narrow to a North Carolina city or ZIP, or search a radius of up to 100 miles around a point. Addresses come back as typed entries — residence, secondary, employment, school — so a work address in Charlotte is distinguishable from a home address. |
| Freshness | Continuously updated, so a Regular result is close to live, and every record returns the date it was last checked. |
| Verification | Every North Carolina match links to the person's official entry on North Carolina Sex Offender Registry (SBI), so any record can be confirmed at the official registry before you act on it. |
Registry data is not a consumer report, and decisions made on it are regulated in that use.
North Carolina sex offender registry and its neighbors: how North Carolina behaves next to the jurisdictions around it. People move, so one search covers the neighbors too.
Registration follows the person, not the state line, so screening that covers North Carolina almost always has to read Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia in the same breath. One search here covers every row at once.
The step-by-step guide: how to search sex offenders in North Carolina.
| Jurisdiction | Date-of-birth match | matchState | Registered population |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | Full date | dob_match | ≈ 29,800 |
| Georgia sex offender registry | Year precision | year_match | — |
| South Carolina sex offender registry | Full date | dob_match | — |
| Tennessee sex offender registry | Full date | dob_match | ≈ 27,800 |
| Virginia sex offender registry | Age precision | age_match | ≈ 25,800 |
What a North Carolina sex offender record shows: what comes back for NC. Every match is a person you can recognise, with the official record one click away.
The same layout for North Carolina and every other US registry, so a match from Georgia reads exactly like one from Charlotte.
| Photograph | The registry photograph, newest first. |
|---|---|
| Name | Legal name and every other name on file. |
| Age and birth date | As North Carolina publishes them, with how closely they matched what you typed. |
| Description | Height, weight, eye and hair colour, scars, marks and tattoos. |
| Addresses | Home, work and school addresses, each labelled, with city, county and ZIP. |
| Offense | What the person was convicted of, where and when. |
| Registration | Risk level, registration dates, and whether they are compliant. |
| Official record | A link to the person's entry on the North Carolina Sex Offender Registry (SBI). |
Is the North Carolina sex offender registry search free? The count near your address is free; a Background Check is $9.99.
Your count
How many registered sex offenders live near your address. No card.
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Names, photographs, offenses and distance for everyone within 30 miles of one address, on a map and as a PDF. Pay once, open for 30 days.
Family Watch
Up to 3 addresses — home, school, grandparents — each unlocked, plus an email when someone registers, moves in or moves out nearby. Or $6.99 a month. Cancel any time.
North Carolina offender search FAQ. Short answers before you search.
How many registered sex offenders are there in North Carolina?
Approximately 29,800 people are on the North Carolina register. It is a population that moves continuously — people are added, reclassified and released from the requirement every week — so treat the figure as scale rather than as a fixed number, and run a search when you need an answer about a specific person.
Should I search North Carolina's official registry site or here?
North Carolina Sex Offender Registry (SBI) is free and covers North Carolina. Searching here covers North Carolina and every other US registry in the same search, keeps a stored history of every check you run with the results you saw, narrows by date of birth, age, city, ZIP or street address, takes a whole CSV list at once, supports teammates on one workspace, and has a full API behind it. If you check people more than once, or people who may have lived anywhere else, that is the difference that matters.
How do I search North Carolina sex offender records by name and date of birth?
Type a last name and add whatever else you hold — first name, date of birth, city or ZIP. In the dashboard that is a form; through the API it is one request with jurisdictions: ["NC"] to scope the answer to North Carolina. Send dob whenever you hold one — it is accepted in North Carolina exactly as it is everywhere else, and it narrows rather than filters, so a record with thinner birth evidence still comes back on the name. In North Carolina it is the strongest single narrowing criterion available, returning dob_match.
Does a North Carolina search include people registered in other states?
It does when you let it. A search with no state scope runs across every US registry in one pass, which is how a prior registration in Georgia and South Carolina surfaces on someone now living in North Carolina. Scoping to North Carolina narrows deliberately to the NC roster — the two are one setting apart, and every response reports which registries answered.
What does a North Carolina record contain?
Every NC record returns under the same normalized shape as the other 57 jurisdictions: identity and aliases, birth evidence with its precision stated, physical description, typed addresses, offense and conviction detail, tier or risk level, registration and compliance status, photographs newest-first, and match scoring on every record. One integration — or one dashboard — reads all of them.
Can I search North Carolina by city or ZIP code?
Yes. Narrow to any North Carolina city or ZIP, or sweep a radius of up to 100 miles around a point. Addresses come back as typed entries — residence, secondary, employment, school — so a work address in Charlotte reads differently from a home address, and each entry carries its own city, county, ZIP and coordinates where geocoded.
How current is a North Carolina result?
The dataset is continuously updated, so a Regular result is close to live — and when a decision needs a current, moment-of-decision check, a live block re-verifies the named jurisdictions at the source in the same request. Every record returns its own lastCheckedAt, so currency is a value you read off the response rather than a claim you take on trust.
Check your own North Carolina address for registered sex offenders
The count of registered sex offenders near your address is free.
Checking one person? A Background Check is $9.99 — name plus where they live or work, across 58 registries and criminal records.Run a Background Check
Free: the count near your address. Optional: see everyone near it — $9.99 once, or Family Watch, $34.99 a year for 3 addresses with email alerts.
Public registry information. It may not be used for employment, tenant, credit or insurance decisions, or to harass or threaten anyone.
North Carolina county sex offender registries. North Carolina county pages for every county we cover.
- Alamance County sex offender registry
- Brunswick County sex offender registry
- Buncombe County sex offender registry
- Cabarrus County sex offender registry
- Catawba County sex offender registry
- Cleveland County sex offender registry
- Craven County sex offender registry
- Cumberland County sex offender registry
- Davidson County sex offender registry
- Durham County sex offender registry
- Forsyth County sex offender registry
- Gaston County sex offender registry
- Guilford County sex offender registry
- Harnett County sex offender registry
- Henderson County sex offender registry
- Iredell County sex offender registry
- Johnston County sex offender registry
- Mecklenburg County sex offender registry
- Moore County sex offender registry
- New Hanover County sex offender registry
- Onslow County sex offender registry
- Orange County sex offender registry
- Pitt County sex offender registry
- Randolph County sex offender registry
- Robeson County sex offender registry
- Rowan County sex offender registry
- Union County sex offender registry
- Wake County sex offender registry
- Wayne County sex offender registry
Sex offenders in North Carolina cities. North Carolina city pages, each with its own count and map.
- Asheville sex offenders
- Burlington sex offenders
- Charlotte sex offenders
- Concord sex offenders
- Durham sex offenders
- Fayetteville sex offenders
- Gastonia sex offenders
- Greensboro sex offenders
- Greenville sex offenders
- High Point sex offenders
- Huntersville sex offenders
- Jacksonville sex offenders
- Kannapolis sex offenders
- Mooresville sex offenders
- Raleigh sex offenders
- Rocky Mount sex offenders
- Wake Forest sex offenders
- Wilmington sex offenders
- Winston-Salem sex offenders
North Carolina county arrest records: criminal records by county. Each county’s jail roster, courts and inmate search; the state’s own page is North Carolina criminal records.
- Brunswick County arrest records
- Buncombe County arrest records
- Cabarrus County arrest records
- Durham County arrest records
- Forsyth County arrest records
- Gaston County arrest records
- Guilford County arrest records
- Johnston County arrest records
- Mecklenburg County arrest records
- New Hanover County arrest records
- Union County arrest records
- Wake County arrest records
Background checks in North Carolina. Plain guides to what a check shows.
North Carolina sex offender alerts. Get alerts for North Carolina.
We'll email you when a registered offender is added or moves near your North Carolina address — a recurring watch on our continuously updated data.
The count near your address is free. Family Watch — up to 3 addresses with email alerts — is $34.99 a year, or $6.99 a month, optional, and you can cancel any time.
This is not a consumer report and must not be used for FCRA-governed hiring, tenancy, or credit decisions — those run through FCRA Partner Access.
For developers: build monitoring into your own product with the API ›
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