Clinton, SC is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 263% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Clinton, SC shows violent crime at 1,278.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 4,029.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 263% 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
1278.6/100K violent
4029.4/100K property
+263% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Clinton, SC
Position in the state cohort
Clinton reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable South Carolina cities
At 1278.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Clinton ranks 14 of 149 — above 135 of the 148 other South Carolina cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +208.4% 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
Clinton's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the South Carolina cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Clinton's 1278.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are McColl (1269.7), Orangeburg (1246.2), Santee (1240.7), Barnwell (1207.7). 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
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 896.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 1278.6 in 2024 (+42.6%). The highest observed value was 1278.6 in 2024 and the lowest 784.8 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 24.1% of the 411 Part I offenses reported in Clinton for 2024, against a median of 14.9% across comparable South Carolina cities — a gap of 9.2 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 counts dominate Clinton'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.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Clinton's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 10.5 Census sq mi, Clinton logged 29.9 property and 9.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Clinton's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (59% of 411 offenses; mix index 4,152).
Violent offenses are 24% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (10.5 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
+62.9%
784.8 → 1278.6/100K
Property Crime Rate
-11.7%
4562.4 → 4029.4/100K
Property offenses lead Clinton's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs SC
Property Crime
312
4029.4
1711
1988.2
Larceny-Theft
244
3151.2
-
-
Burglary
42
542.4
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
26
335.8
-
-
Arson
0
0
-
-
Violent Crime
99
1278.6
352
439.3
Aggravated Assault
90
1162.3
-
-
Rape
7
90.4
-
-
Murder
2
25.8
-
-
Robbery
0
0
-
-
Clinton Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Clinton 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
Clinton Police Department
Reporting agency for Clinton NIBRS-participating
Clinton Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Clinton's 411 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 Clinton in population. Their populations run from 6,430 to 9,088, against 7,743 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Clinton reported 99 violent crimes and 312 property crimes, for a total of 411 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Clinton?
From 2023 to 2024, Clinton's violent crime rate increased by 62.9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 11.7%.
What is the most common crime in Clinton?
The most common crime type in Clinton is larceny-theft, accounting for 59.4% of all reported crimes (244 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Clinton is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Clinton, SC rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.