Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. 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 October 2, 2026.
Granville County, North Carolina, has about 62,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Granville County Sheriff's Office and three city agencies. An arrest 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 each agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.
Related guides: Granville County public records, North Carolina arrest records, North Carolina inmate search and North Carolina criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Granville County
The Granville County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Granville County. It reported 506 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside three of the county's cities are reported to the FBI by an agency of the city's own, listed here with the Census population and what each reported:
- Oxford, 8,972 residents: 416 arrests reported for 2025.
- Butner, 8,134 residents: 219 arrests reported for 2025.
- Creedmoor, 5,049 residents: 101 arrests reported for 2025.
A city on that list is reported separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Granville County
Each agency reports its arrests to the FBI by month, and the FBI publishes them 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.
- Granville County Sheriff's Office: 506 for 2025, 562 for 2024, 567 for 2023, 544 for 2022, 639 for 2021 and 486 for 2020.
- Oxford: 416 for 2025, 325 for 2024, 363 for 2023, 251 for 2022, 269 for 2021 and 331 for 2020.
- Butner: 219 for 2025, 216 for 2024, 220 for 2023, 244 for 2022, 243 for 2021 and 213 for 2020.
- Creedmoor: 101 for 2025, 102 for 2024, 144 for 2023, 148 for 2022, 143 for 2021 and 122 for 2020.
Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,242 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,242 in 2025 against 1,205 in 2024, up 3.1 percent.
Through August 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 710 arrests, against 707 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Granville County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Granville County 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 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 Granville County
For Granville County 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 Granville County
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 Granville County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Oxford, Butner or Creedmoor: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- 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.
Cities in Granville County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for three of the five cities in Granville County: Oxford, Butner and Creedmoor. Stem and Stovall have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Granville County Superior Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Granville County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Granville County each year?
The Granville County Sheriff's Office reported 506 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the four agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,242 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Granville County?
Ask the Granville County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at granvillecounty.org/520/Sheriffs-Office.
Where are people arrested in Granville County 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 Granville County?
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 Granville County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Granville County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. 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 Granville County website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.