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Wrightsville Beach Police Department

City agency in New Hanover, North Carolina. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2019.

ORI: NC0650300
Type: City
County: New Hanover
State: North Carolina
FBI reporting: Reporting since 2019-01-01
Location: 34.1775, -77.8714

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 2,397.

27Sworn officers

2Civilian staff

12.10Employees per 1,000 people

2,397Population served

Year	Officers	Civilians	Population served	Per 1,000
2025	27	2	2,397	12.10
2024	23	2	2,405	10.40
2023	24	2	2,432	10.69
2022	21	1	2,396	9.18
2021	25	2	2,519	10.72
2020	20	2	2,563	8.58
2019	24	2	2,550	10.20
2018	20	2	2,558	8.60
2017	24	2	2,574	10.10
2016	23	2	2,581	9.69
2015	19	2	2,566	8.18
2014	24	2	2,570	10.12

Officer and civilian counts are full-time employees as filed by the agency in its annual return. A dash means the agency did not report that figure for that year — it does not mean zero.

Also policing New Hanover

Jurisdictions overlap. These agencies are also recorded against the same county, so a single address may be covered by more than one of them.

Carolina Beach Police DepartmentCity · reporting Kure Beach Police DepartmentCity · never reported New Hanover County Sheriff's OfficeCounty · reporting North Carolina State Port Authority: Division 1Other · reporting State Park Rangers: Carolina BeachOther State Agency · reporting State Park Rangers: Fort FisherOther State Agency · reporting University of North Carolina: WilmingtonUniversity or College · reporting Wilmington Police DepartmentCity · reporting

Source

Agency identity, type, jurisdiction, coordinates and reporting status are as published by the FBI Crime Data Explorer, agency record NC0650300. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.