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Table 10

SOUTH CAROLINA

Offenses Known to Law Enforcement

by Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Counties, 2017

[The data shown in this table do not reflect county totals but are the number of offenses reported by the sheriff's office or county police department.]

Metropolitan/Nonmetropolitan County Violent
crime 		Murder and
nonnegligent
manslaughter		 Rape1 Robbery Aggravated
assault		 Property
crime 		Burglary Larceny-
theft		 Motor
vehicle
theft		 Arson
Metropolitan Counties Anderson 738 8 53 100 577 5,257 1,055 3,564 638 27
Beaufort2 538 6 81 45 406 166 10
Berkeley2 433 8 57 68 300 326 11
Calhoun 35 0 2 6 27 257 70 145 42 2
Chester 112 2 11 5 94 523 93 395 35 2
Darlington 425 28 17 46 334 1,937 690 1,100 147 18
Fairfield 180 4 5 11 160 471 106 321 44 11
Florence 470 12 50 60 348 2,423 615 1,606 202 7
Greenville 1,679 26 212 264 1,177 8,604 1,907 5,827 870 48
Horry 2 0 0 0 2 3 0 3 0 0
Horry County Police Department 916 20 212 115 569 7,332 1,470 5,146 716 45
Kershaw 104 5 15 12 72 792 163 571 58 3
Lancaster 219 3 15 28 173 1,709 451 1,181 77 12
Laurens 301 3 23 12 263 1,176 375 645 156 5
Lexington2 525 15 79 56 375 789 650 8
Pickens 297 2 53 13 229 1,721 506 1,005 210 10
Richland 1,977 23 122 319 1,513 10,546 1,995 7,238 1,313 48
Saluda 38 0 3 1 34 185 56 105 24 2
Spartanburg 1,031 10 79 125 817 5,756 1,465 3,618 673 25
Sumter 403 3 23 36 341 1,973 636 1,164 173 16
Union 71 0 6 6 59 615 205 388 22 2
York 356 2 33 50 271 2,322 532 1,605 185 5
Nonmetropolitan Counties Abbeville 25 1 1 2 21 221 73 132 16 0
Bamberg 10 0 1 0 9 155 49 82 24 1
Barnwell 87 1 6 7 73 291 78 165 48 3
Cherokee 101 1 11 15 74 1,243 365 749 129 6
Chesterfield 146 7 19 11 109 858 347 472 39 3
Clarendon 105 0 8 13 84 744 234 467 43 3
Dillon 175 4 7 21 143 675 264 373 38 12
Georgetown 178 5 24 17 132 1,216 414 703 99 9
Greenwood 211 1 32 17 161 1,166 216 862 88 4
Hampton 47 0 5 3 39 265 102 152 11 4
Lee 60 1 4 6 49 299 102 178 19 2
Marion 91 4 9 12 66 608 242 323 43 1
Marlboro 92 3 7 8 74 437 161 249 27 4
McCormick 23 3 5 0 15 105 32 60 13 1
Newberry 47 0 6 4 37 224 39 163 22 0
Oconee 153 3 31 15 104 1,670 378 1,153 139 9
Orangeburg 335 8 19 41 267 2,535 711 1,567 257 15
Williamsburg 126 1 10 17 98 618 206 334 78 11
  • 1 The figures shown in this column for the offense of rape were reported using only the revised Uniform Crime Reporting definition of rape. See the data declaration for further explanation.
  • 2 The FBI determined that the agency's data were underreported. Consequently, those data are not included in this table.

Data Declaration

Provides the methodology used in constructing this table and other pertinent information about this table.