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 30, 2026.
Oxford, North Carolina, in Granville County, has about 9,000 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 Granville 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: Oxford public records, Granville County arrest records, North Carolina arrest records and North Carolina inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Oxford
The FBI lists Oxford with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Oxford Police Department. It reported 416 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 Granville County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 506 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests Oxford 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.
- Oxford: 416 for 2025, 325 for 2024, 363 for 2023, 251 for 2022, 269 for 2021 and 331 for 2020.
Oxford's 416 arrests in 2025 were up 28 percent from 325 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Oxford reported 270 arrests, against 282 in the same months of 2025.
Across Granville County, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,242 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Oxford Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Oxford and kept in custody ends up, whichever agency made the arrest, though a city department may hold someone in its own cells first and a person cited and released at the scene is never booked. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and once the person is released or sentenced the record continues in the court file.
On an average day in 2024 the jail held about 270 people, up from about 81 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 87 beds, and it ran at 93 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Granville County Sheriff's Office at granvillecounty.org/520/Sheriffs-Office (page title: Sheriff’s Office | Granville County, NC), 104 Belle Street | Oxford, NC 27565, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 30, 2026.
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 Oxford
For Oxford the place to look is the case index of the Granville 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/granville-county).
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 Oxford
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 Oxford police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at oxfordnc.org/departments/police/index.php (page title: City of Oxford), phone 919-693-3161, 204 E. McClanahan Street PO Box 1186 Oxford, NC 27565, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Granville County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Granville County Superior Court, through the court records page at nccourts.gov/locations/granville-county.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at granvillecounty.org (page title: Public Records Requests | Granville County, NC).
- Your own statewide record: a Right to Review request, fingerprint-based, to the State Bureau of Investigation.
The Granville County guide covers every agency in the county: Granville County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Oxford each year?
Oxford reported 416 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Oxford?
Ask the Granville County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at granvillecounty.org/520/Sheriffs-Office.
Where are people arrested in Oxford booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Granville County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Oxford?
The court files of criminal cases in the Granville 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 Oxford?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Oxford police for its own arrests, the Granville 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; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at granvillecounty.org.
Is this the official Oxford 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.