Allendale, SC is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 543% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Allendale, SC shows violent crime at 2,263.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 4,897.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 543% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
F safety grade
2263.4/100K violent
4897.1/100K property
+543% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Allendale, SC
Position in the state cohort
Allendale reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable South Carolina cities
At 2263.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Allendale ranks 4 of 149 — above 145 of the 148 other South Carolina cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +445.9% against the cohort median of 414.6. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Comparable rate records
Allendale's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the South Carolina cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Allendale's 2263.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Estill (2168.9), Dillon (2371.8), Hemingway (2375.8), Atlantic Beach (2093.0). These are same-year agency submissions that pass the same completeness screen, not a claim that the cities have identical conditions. They make the cohort position above checkable against named records instead of a generic state average.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 31.6% of the 174 Part I offenses reported in Allendale for 2024, against a median of 14.9% across comparable South Carolina cities — a gap of 16.7 points. Offense mix is shaped by which agencies report and how incidents are classified as well as by the underlying offenses, so it describes the reported record rather than a settled difference in conditions.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 69.7% of reported property offenses in Allendale, against a cohort median of 80.6%. The remainder is burglary (25) and motor vehicle theft (11). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 2055.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 2263.4 in 2024 (+10.1%). The highest observed value was 3241.7 in 2023 and the lowest 1256.7 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Allendale's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; cities that fail the completeness test stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
On a small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
Allendale's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 3.3 Census sq mi, Allendale logged 36 property and 16.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Allendale leans on larceny-theft at 48% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,353.
Violent offenses are 32% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (3.3 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Both rates shifted (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-30.2%
3241.7 → 2263.4/100K
Property Crime Rate
+31.1%
3734.1 → 4897.1/100K
Property offenses lead Allendale's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs SC
Property Crime
119
4897.1
1711
1988.2
Larceny-Theft
83
3415.6
-
-
Burglary
25
1028.8
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
11
452.7
-
-
Arson
0
0
-
-
Violent Crime
55
2263.4
352
439.3
Aggravated Assault
50
2057.6
-
-
Robbery
4
164.6
-
-
Rape
1
41.2
-
-
Murder
0
0
-
-
Allendale Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Allendale property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Allendale Police Department
Reporting agency for Allendale NIBRS-participating
Allendale Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Allendale's 174 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
This agency reports via NIBRS, the incident-based system that captures more detail per offense (multiple crimes per incident, victim/offender data) than the older summary counts.
Similar-Size Cities in South Carolina
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the South Carolina cities closest to Allendale in population. Their populations run from 2,332 to 2,579, against 2,430 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Allendale reported 55 violent crimes and 119 property crimes, for a total of 174 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Allendale?
From 2023 to 2024, Allendale's violent crime rate decreased by 30.2%, and the property crime rate increased by 31.1%.
What is the most common crime in Allendale?
The most common crime type in Allendale is larceny-theft, accounting for 47.7% of all reported crimes (83 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Allendale's FBI UCR Table 8 row (2024) is the only source for the rates above.
With a small population base, per-100,000 rates amplify sparse counts. Incomplete submissions are excluded from rankings. See FBI.gov UCR for the raw Table 8 file.
Disclaimer (small municipal): small-base rates are especially easy to misread. Informational only - not advice. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Allendale, SC rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.