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Table 13

SOUTH CAROLINA

Hate Crime Incidents

per Bias Motivation and Quarter

by Agency, 2015

Agency Type Agency name Number of incidents per bias motivation Number of incidents per quarter Population1
Race/
Ethnicity/
Ancestry 		Religion Sexual
orientation 		Disability Gender Gender
Identity 		1st
quarter 		2nd
quarter 		3rd
quarter 		4th
quarter
Total 44 2 7 2 0 0
Cities 27 0 5 0 0 0
Belton 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 4,324
Blacksburg 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1,880
Cayce 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 13,055
Charleston 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 132,585
Cheraw 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 5,781
Chester 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 5,467
Columbia 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 132,495
Darlington 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 6,186
Easley 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 20,676
Elgin 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1,452
Georgetown 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 9,028
Greenville 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 63,011
Hemingway 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 428
Honea Path 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 3,697
Mauldin 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 25,246
Mount Pleasant 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 80,446
Myrtle Beach 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 30,731
North Charleston 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 109,051
North Myrtle Beach 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 15,518
Orangeburg 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 13,459
Saluda 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3,618
Santee 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 940
Summerville 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 48,071
Surfside Beach 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 4,276
Universities and Colleges 2 0 0 1 0 0
Trident Technical College 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 16,136
University of South Carolina:
Columbia 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 32,971
Upstate 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5,585
Metropolitan Counties 10 1 1 0 0 0
Berkeley 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Charleston 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Greenville 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Horry County Police Department 4 1 0 0 0 0 2 3 0 0
Lexington 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Richland 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Sumter 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Union 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Nonmetropolitan Counties 4 0 1 1 0 0
Cherokee 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0
Colleton 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0
Georgetown 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0
Hampton 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Other Agencies 1 1 0 0 0 0
United States Department of Energy, Savannah River Plant 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
  • 1 Population figures are published only for the cities. The figures listed for the universities and colleges are student enrollment and were provided by the United States Department of Education for the 2014 school year, the most recent available. The enrollment figures include full-time and part-time students.

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