Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones the agency reported to the FBI, through 2025. The jail figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site between September 23, 2026 and September 25, 2026.
Concord, North Carolina, in Cabarrus County, has about 112,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and its arrests are reported to the FBI by an agency of its own. An arrest in the city leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the District Attorney files charges, a case in the Cabarrus County Superior Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts the agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies and common questions.
Related guides: Concord public records, Cabarrus County arrest records, North Carolina arrest records and North Carolina inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Concord
The FBI lists Concord with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Concord Police Department. It reported 3,532 arrests for 2025. A city is listed separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
Outside the city, the Cabarrus County Sheriff's Office is the county agency.
How Many Arrests Concord Reports
The FBI publishes every agency's monthly arrest counts on the Crime Data Explorer. These are the full-year totals, all offenses, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026; a year with months missing or not reported is left out.
- Concord: 3,532 for 2025, 3,773 for 2024, 3,189 for 2023, 2,904 for 2022, 2,709 for 2021 and 2,875 for 2020.
Concord's 3,532 arrests in 2025 were down 6.4 percent from 3,773 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Concord reported 2,211 arrests, against 2,388 in the same months of 2025.
Across Cabarrus County, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 5,720 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Concord Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Concord is held at the county jail, whichever agency made the arrest, apart from the short stay some city departments' own holding cells allow; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked at all. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and the court file takes over from there.
On an average day in 2024 the jail held about 330 people, up from about 310 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 665 beds, and it ran at 47 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the Cabarrus County Sheriff's Office at cabarruscounty.us/Government/Departments/Sheriffs-Office-Old/Detent... (page title: Find an Inmate Cabarrus County), 65 Church St S Concord, NC 28025, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
That page is the place to look for someone who was booked recently; a person cited and released at the scene, or held only a few hours by a city department, will not be on it.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction lists its inmates at dac.nc.gov/dac-services/criminal-offender-searches.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Concord
An arrest in Concord can be traced in three places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Cabarrus County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Cabarrus County Superior Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at nccourts.gov/locations/cabarrus-county); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at nccourts.gov/news/tag/general-news/governor-cooper-appoints-distric..., phone (704) 262-5500).
Statewide, eCourts Portal is the North Carolina Judicial Branch's free statewide case search.
North Carolina does not let the public search another person's statewide criminal history. The record kept by the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation goes to the person it belongs to and to employers and agencies the law authorizes; for everyone else the court's own case index is the public record of an arrest that led to a charge.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Concord
The report of an arrest is released by the agency that made it; the jail and the court hold their own records of the same event, but not the report. Under the North Carolina Public Records Act the agency must answer as promptly as possible; the statute sets no number of days, and it may charge the actual cost of copying.
- An arrest by the Concord police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at concordnc.gov/Departments/Police/Contact-Us (page title: City of Concord NC > Departments > Police > Contact Us), phone (704) 920-5007, 41 Cabarrus Ave W Concord, NC 28026, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Cabarrus County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (704) 262-5500, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Cabarrus County Superior Court, through the court records page at nccourts.gov/locations/cabarrus-county.
- Your own statewide record: a Right to Review request, fingerprint-based, to the State Bureau of Investigation.
The Cabarrus County guide covers every agency in the county: Cabarrus County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Concord each year?
Concord reported 3,532 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Concord?
Look on the custody page of the Cabarrus County Sheriff's Office at cabarruscounty.us. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Concord booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Cabarrus County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Concord?
The court files of criminal cases in the Cabarrus County Superior Court are public and can be looked up through the court. The statewide criminal history kept by the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation is not public; you can get your own. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the North Carolina Public Records Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Concord?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Concord police for its own arrests, the Cabarrus County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the North Carolina Public Records Act the answer is due as promptly as possible; the statute sets no number of days.
Is this the official Concord website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official city, county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.