2019 Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College Crime & Safety Report

Is A-B Tech safe? Below we'll take a look at crime statistics for the college campus and surrounding areas.

What you'll find in our crime and safety report on A-B Tech:

• Understanding the Stats
• A-B Tech Crime Overall
• On-Campus Crime
• Crime on Off-Campus Affiliated Property
• Crime in the Asheville Neighborhood
• References

A Word About the Crime Stats for A-B Tech

Crime & Safety Definitions

Our crime statistics come from the U.S. Department of Education's Campus Safety and Security data. The four types of crimes we will be analyzing are violence against women, arrests for major crimes, arrests for possession, and disciplinary actions.

Murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, and arson are the types of things included in the arrests for major crimes category. The violence against women grouping includes things such as domestic violence, date rape, and stalking. The arrests for possession classification deals with things such as weapons possession, alcohol violations, and drug violations. The disciplinary actions category involves possession of weapons, alcohol violations, and drug violations in the cases where no arrest occurred but some action was taken.

Number of Incidents

It is not unusual for institutions to report that no incidents occurred in some of these categories. In fact, 56% of the schools we cover reported no arrests for major crimes, 67% reported no violence against women, 70% reported no arrests for possession, and 68% reported no disciplinary actions.

Zero incidents of reported crime may be nice to see, but it does not necessarily mean the school is safer, as it could indicate lax reporting. Likewise, a high number of incidents may just mean that the school is stricter about law enforcement and reporting.

A-B Tech Overall Crime Stats

In 2019, Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College reported 12 incidents related to crime and safety that involved students at or near campus or on other properties associated with the school. Based on a student body population of 7,003, that's 1.71 incidents per 1,000 students.

In order to make this data a little clearer, the table below shows the number of incidents by category and the maximum number of incidents reported by a school in that category.

Category	Number of Incidents	Max Number of Incidents (at any school)	Number of Incidents per 1,000 students	Max Number of Incidents per 1000 students (at any school)
Arrests for Major Crimes	2	1,670	0.29	4,000.00
Arrests for Possession	7	880	1.00	1,352.94
Violence Against Women	2	334	0.29	1,000.00
Disciplinary Actions	1	2,670	0.14	4,574.85

A-B Tech Overall Crime by Category

The chart below shows what percentage of A-B Tech crime and safety incidents are in each category.

Disciplinary actions account for 8.3% of all crime and safety incidents at the school. Around 58.3% of the crime and safety-related incidents at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College resulted in arrests for possession. About 16.7% of incidents were arrests for major crimes. Acts of violence against women accounted for 16.7% of incidents.

Comparison to Other Schools in the Nation

The charts below show how A-B Tech compares to other colleges and universities in the nation when it comes to each category of crime and safety-related incidents. Note that this does not take school size into account so larger schools are likely to have more incidents.

We can factor in the size of the school and look at the incidents per thousand students as well.

A-B Tech Overall Crime by Location

The percentage breakdown of A-B Tech crime and safety incidents by location is shown in the following chart.

A-B Tech On-Campus Crime Stats

Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College reported 8 incidents related to crime and safety in 2019. These student-involved incidents took place on campus. Since the number of students at the school that year was 7,003, that's 1.14 incidents per 1,000 students.

In order to make this data a little clearer, the table below shows the number of incidents by category and the maximum number of incidents reported by a school in that category.

Category	Number of Incidents	Max Number of Incidents (at any school)	Number of Incidents per 1,000 students	Max Number of Incidents per 1000 students (at any school)
Arrests for Major Crimes	1	1,585	0.14	4,000.00
Arrests for Possession	4	813	0.57	888.89
Violence Against Women	2	331	0.29	1,000.00
Disciplinary Actions	1	2,645	0.14	4,544.91

A-B Tech On-Campus Crime by Category

The percentage breakdown of A-B Tech on-campus crime and safety incidents by category is shown in the following chart.

A-B Tech Affiliated Off-Campus Crime Stats

Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College reported 4 incidents related to crime and safety in 2019. These student-involved incidents took place on affiliated off-campus properties. Since the number of students at the school that year was 7,003, that's 0.57 incidents per 1,000 students.

In order to make this data a little clearer, the table below shows the number of incidents by category and the maximum number of incidents reported by a school in that category.

Category	Number of Incidents	Max Number of Incidents (at any school)	Number of Incidents per 1,000 students	Max Number of Incidents per 1000 students (at any school)
Arrests for Major Crimes	1	164	0.14	333.33
Arrests for Possession	3	64	0.43	111.11
Violence Against Women	0	100	0.00	194.44
Disciplinary Actions	0	144	0.00	305.56

A-B Tech Affiliated Off-Campus Crime by Category

The percentage breakdown of A-B Tech crime and safety incidents by category on affiliated off-campus is shown in the following chart.

References

• National Center for Education Statistics
• U.S. Department of Education Campus Safety and Security
• College Scorecard
• Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System

More about our data sources and methodologies.