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.
Rockingham County, North Carolina, has about 94,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Rockingham County Sheriff's Office, five city agencies and two state 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 Rockingham 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: Rockingham County public records, North Carolina arrest records, North Carolina inmate search and North Carolina criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Rockingham County
The Rockingham County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Rockingham County. It reported 723 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists five cities in Rockingham County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Eden, 15,399 residents: 1,502 arrests reported for 2025.
- Reidsville, 14,646 residents: 724 arrests reported for 2025.
- Mayodan, 2,478 residents: 65 arrests reported for 2025.
- Madison, 2,176 residents: 76 arrests reported for 2025.
- Stoneville, 1,351 residents: 6 arrests reported for 2023.
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 FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Rockingham County: the State Park Rangers at Mayo River and the State Park Rangers at Haw River (state agency).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Rockingham 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.
- Eden: 1,502 for 2025, 1,541 for 2024, 1,634 for 2023, 1,256 for 2022, 1,483 for 2021 and 1,284 for 2020.
- Reidsville: 724 for 2025, 747 for 2024, 689 for 2023, 746 for 2022, 616 for 2021 and 637 for 2020.
- Rockingham County Sheriff's Office: 723 for 2025, 772 for 2024, 712 for 2023, 967 for 2020 and 914 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Madison: 76 for 2025, 47 for 2024, 76 for 2023, 55 for 2022, 49 for 2021 and 56 for 2020.
- Mayodan: 65 for 2025, 96 for 2024, 104 for 2023, 73 for 2022, 76 for 2021 and 68 for 2020.
- Stoneville: 6 for 2023, 37 for 2022, 51 for 2021, 52 for 2020 and 42 for 2019.
Together, the five agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 3,090 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 3,090 in 2025 against 3,203 in 2024, down 3.5 percent.
Through July 2026, the four agencies with every month so far on file reported 1,472 arrests, against 1,880 in the same months of 2025.
Stoneville reported only part of 2025 (11 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Rockingham County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Rockingham 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 220 people, up from about 190 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 232 beds, and it ran at 82 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
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 Rockingham County
For Rockingham County the place to look is the case index of the Rockingham 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/rockingham-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 Rockingham 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 Rockingham County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Eden, Reidsville, Mayodan, Madison or Stoneville: 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 Mayo River or the State Park Rangers at Haw River: the records office of the agency involved.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Rockingham County Superior Court, through the court records page at nccourts.gov/locations/rockingham-county.
- Your own statewide record: a Right to Review request, fingerprint-based, to the State Bureau of Investigation.
Cities in Rockingham County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for five of the six cities in Rockingham County: Eden, Reidsville, Mayodan, Madison and Stoneville. Wentworth has 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 Rockingham County Superior Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Rockingham County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Eden (15,399)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Rockingham County each year?
Eden reported 1,502 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the five agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 3,090 between them.
Where are people arrested in Rockingham County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Rockingham County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Rockingham County?
The court files of criminal cases in the Rockingham 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 Rockingham County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Rockingham 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.
Is this the official Rockingham 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.