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 26, 2026.
Siler City, North Carolina, in Chatham County, has about 8,100 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 Chatham 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: Siler City public records, Chatham County arrest records, North Carolina arrest records and North Carolina inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Siler City
The FBI lists Siler City with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Siler City Police Department. It reported 340 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 Chatham County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 798 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests Siler City 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.
- Siler City: 340 for 2025, 311 for 2024, 272 for 2023, 266 for 2022, 243 for 2021 and 230 for 2020.
Siler City's 340 arrests in 2025 were up 9.3 percent from 311 in 2024.
Across Chatham County, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,257 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Siler City Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Siler City 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 48 people, down from about 71 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 110 beds, and it ran at 65 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 Chatham County Sheriff's Office at chathamsheriff.com/inmatesearch (page title: Inmate Search | Chatham County Sheriff’s Office NC), 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 person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction, whose inmate locator is at dac.nc.gov/dac-services/criminal-offender-searches.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Siler City
Whether someone was arrested in Siler City, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the custody page of the Chatham County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Chatham 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/chatham-county/chatham-county-cases-of-publi...).
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 Siler City
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. 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 Siler City police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at silercity.gov/205/Records (page title: Records | Siler City, NC), phone 919-742-5626, Monday through Friday, 8 am to 5 pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Chatham County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Chatham County Superior Court, through the court records page at nccourts.gov.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at chathamcountync.gov (page title: Public Records Requests | Chatham County, NC).
- Your own statewide record: a Right to Review request, fingerprint-based, to the State Bureau of Investigation.
The Chatham County guide covers every agency in the county: Chatham County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Siler City each year?
Siler City reported 340 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Siler City?
Look on the custody page of the Chatham County Sheriff's Office at chathamsheriff.com/inmatesearch. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Siler City booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Chatham County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Siler City?
The court files of criminal cases in the Chatham 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 Siler City?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Siler City police for its own arrests, the Chatham 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 chathamcountync.gov.
Is this the official Siler City 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.