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 on September 23, 2026.
Iredell County, North Carolina, has about 206,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Iredell County Sheriff's Office, three city agencies and one state agency. 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 Iredell 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: Iredell County public records, North Carolina arrest records, North Carolina inmate search and North Carolina criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Iredell County
The Iredell County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Iredell County. It reported 3,366 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists three cities in Iredell County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Mooresville, 52,884 residents: 1,452 arrests reported for 2025.
- Statesville, 31,693 residents: 1,341 arrests reported for 2025.
- Troutman, 4,234 residents: 418 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.
The Davidson Police Department is listed by the FBI across two counties including Iredell County, so its arrests are not broken out for Iredell County here.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Iredell County: the State Park Rangers at Lake Norman (state agency).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Iredell County
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.
- Iredell County Sheriff's Office: 3,366 for 2025, 2,867 for 2024, 3,463 for 2023, 3,035 for 2022, 3,054 for 2021 and 3,255 for 2020.
- Mooresville: 1,452 for 2025, 1,083 for 2024, 1,104 for 2023, 1,340 for 2022, 1,198 for 2021 and 1,018 for 2020.
- Statesville: 1,341 for 2025, 1,267 for 2024, 1,013 for 2023, 555 for 2022, 704 for 2021 and 760 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
- Troutman: 418 for 2025, 289 for 2024, 342 for 2023, 301 for 2022, 186 for 2021 and 269 for 2020.
Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 6,577 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 6,577 in 2025 against 5,506 in 2024, up 19 percent.
Through August 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 3,272 arrests, against 3,431 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Iredell County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Iredell County 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 770 people, up from about 340 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 277 beds, and it ran at 123 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 Iredell County Sheriff's Office at p2c.iredellcountync.gov/jailinmates.aspx (page title: Iredell County Sheriff's Office P2C), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 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 Iredell County
Whether someone was arrested in Iredell County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Iredell 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/iredell-county); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at iredellcountync.gov/538/Clerk-of-Superior-Court-District-Attorne, phone 704-832-6600).
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 Iredell County
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 Iredell County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Mooresville, Statesville or Troutman: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- An arrest by the State Park Rangers at Lake Norman: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 704-832-6600, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Iredell County Superior Court, through the court records page at nccourts.gov/locations/iredell-county.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at iredellcountync.gov/724/Request (page title: Request | Iredell County, NC).
- Your own statewide record: a Right to Review request, fingerprint-based, to the State Bureau of Investigation.
Cities in Iredell County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for three of the five cities in Iredell County: Mooresville, Statesville and Troutman. Harmony and Love Valley 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 Iredell County Superior Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Iredell County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Mooresville (52,884)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Iredell County each year?
The Iredell County Sheriff's Office reported 3,366 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the four agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 6,577 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Iredell County?
Ask the Iredell County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at p2c.iredellcountync.gov/jailinmates.aspx.
Where are people arrested in Iredell County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Iredell County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Iredell County?
The court files of criminal cases in the Iredell 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 Iredell County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Iredell 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 iredellcountync.gov/724/Request.
Is this the official Iredell 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.