Crime Grade · South Carolina

Safest Cities in South Carolina

41 reporting South Carolina cities ranked safest to least safe, by FBI violent crime rate per 100,000 residents. Data from the FBI Crime Data Explorer.

State median violent crime rate: 279.9 per 100,000. Cities with population ≥ 10,000. Letter grade is the national decile against all FBI-reporting U.S. cities — same grade everywhere on this site.

Rank	City	Population	Violent / 100k	Grade
1	Fort Mill	39,692	30.2	A1/10
2	Bluffton	38,446	59.8	A1/10
3	Tega Cay	14,671	75.0	A1/10
4	Clemson	18,832	127.4	A2/10
5	Mount Pleasant	96,727	131.3	A2/10
6	Port Royal	17,030	140.9	A2/10
7	Hardeeville	16,040	143.4	A2/10
8	North Augusta	26,895	145.0	A2/10
9	Mauldin	31,135	160.6	A2/10
10	Lexington	25,799	170.5	A2/10
11	Easley	28,105	185.0	A3/10
12	Irmo	12,240	220.6	A3/10
13	Moncks Corner	19,858	221.6	A3/10
14	Simpsonville	29,331	225.0	A3/10
15	Hanahan	22,351	228.2	A3/10
16	Fountain Inn	14,756	244.0	A3/10
17	Goose Creek	51,433	250.8	A3/10
18	Greer	49,394	255.1	A3/10
19	Beaufort	14,521	268.6	B4/10
20	Summerville	52,148	272.3	B4/10
21	Charleston	159,360	279.9	B4/10
22	Gaffney	12,499	280.0	B4/10
23	North Myrtle Beach	21,295	300.5	B4/10
24	Conway	30,900	323.6	B4/10
25	Forest Acres	10,393	384.9	B5/10
26	Rock Hill	76,087	391.7	B5/10
27	Aiken	32,830	450.8	B5/10
28	Greenville	75,127	465.9	B5/10
29	York	10,181	491.1	C6/10
30	Greenwood	22,695	502.3	C6/10
31	Cayce	13,617	536.1	C6/10
32	West Columbia	18,652	541.5	C6/10
33	Newberry	10,919	567.8	C6/10
34	Anderson	31,319	571.5	C6/10
35	Florence	41,133	624.8	C7/10
36	North Charleston	128,751	666.4	C7/10
37	Sumter	42,838	707.3	C7/10
38	Columbia	147,021	787.0	C7/10
39	Myrtle Beach	41,764	1096.6	F9/10
40	Orangeburg	13,431	1139.2	F9/10
41	Spartanburg	39,186	1477.6	F10/10

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About this ranking

Cities are ranked by the FBI's reported violent crime rate per 100,000 residents for the most recent fully-reported year (see individual city pages for the year shown). The list is restricted to cities with population ≥ 10,000 that report to the FBI's National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer. Refreshed every six months.