Atlantic Beach, SC has a F safety grade (0/100) with a violent crime rate of 2093 per 100,000, 495% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small municipal
Atlantic Beach's UCR row covers a small municipal population (430). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to SC and U.S. averages.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Atlantic Beach, SC is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 495% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Atlantic Beach, SC shows violent crime at 2,093 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,953.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 495% 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.
Small-count caution
Atlantic Beach reported 9 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 430. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Position in the state cohort
At 2093.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Atlantic Beach ranks 6 of 149 — above 143 of the 148 other South Carolina cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +404.8% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 34.6% of the 26 Part I offenses reported in Atlantic Beach for 2024, against a median of 14.9% across comparable South Carolina cities — a gap of 19.7 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Atlantic Beach's 2093.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Estill (2168.9), Pageland (1949.1), Allendale (2263.4), Dillon (2371.8). 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 2396.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 2093.0 in 2024 (-12.7%). The highest observed value was 2662.7 in 2023 and the lowest 1115.2 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Atlantic Beach'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.
Based on 9 reported violent incidents in a population of 430. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
On a small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
Across 0.2 Census sq mi, Atlantic Beach logged 104.9 property and 55.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Atlantic Beach leans on larceny-theft at 54% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,994.
Violent offenses are 35% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Atlantic Beach offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (0.2 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 17 | 3953.5 |
| Larceny-Theft | 14 | 3255.8 |
| Burglary | 3 | 697.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 9 | 2093 |
| Aggravated Assault | 8 | 1860.5 |
| Robbery | 1 | 232.6 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 459 | 2396.5 | 5010.9 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 501 | 1397.2 | 4191.6 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 269 | 1115.2 | 1487 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 338 | 2662.7 | 5325.4 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 430 | 2093 | 3953.5 |
Atlantic Beach Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Atlantic Beach's 26 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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the South Carolina cities closest to Atlantic Beach in population. Their populations run from 389 to 575, against 430 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Atlantic Beach sits at 2,093/100K violent (grade F); the South Carolina cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Atlantic Beach reported 9 violent crimes and 17 property crimes, for a total of 26 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Atlantic Beach's violent crime rate decreased by 21.4%, and the property crime rate decreased by 25.8%.
The most common crime type in Atlantic Beach is larceny-theft, accounting for 53.8% of all reported crimes (14 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Atlantic Beach'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.
Micro-municipal rate methodology for how Atlantic Beach's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Atlantic Beach, SC rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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