Folly Beach, SC has a C safety grade (47/100) with a violent crime rate of 336 per 100,000, 5% below the national average.
Folly Beach's UCR row covers a small municipal population (2,084). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to SC and U.S. averages.
Folly Beach, SC carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 5% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Folly Beach, SC shows violent crime at 335.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,255.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 5% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
The verdict
Folly Beach earns a C safety grade: violent crime runs 5% below the U.S. average, placing it higher-crime than most U.S. cities.
Based on 7 reported violent incidents in a population of 2,084. 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.
Small-count caution
Folly Beach reported 7 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 2,084. 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Folly Beach's 335.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Moncks Corner (336.1), St. Matthews (329.3), Greer (343.9), Saluda (327.4). 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 335.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Folly Beach ranks 88 of 149 — above 61 of the 148 other South Carolina cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -19.8% against the cohort median of 418.8. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Property counts dominate Folly 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 7 reported violent incidents in a population of 2,084. 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.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 47 | 2255.3 |
| Larceny-Theft | 36 | 1727.4 |
| Burglary | 9 | 431.9 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 2 | 96 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 7 | 335.9 |
| Rape | 4 | 191.9 |
| Aggravated Assault | 3 | 144 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 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 | 2,676 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 2,699 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 2,041 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 2,087 | 287.5 | 1245.8 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 2,084 | 335.9 | 2255.3 |
Folly Beach's crime figures on this page originate from Folly Beach Police Department's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
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 Folly Beach in population. Their populations run from 1,921 to 2,247, against 2,084 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
These South Carolina cities report the closest violent-crime rates to Folly Beach's 335.9/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).
Micro-municipal read: Folly 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 Folly Beach's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Folly Beach, SC rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Folly Beach is scored as a small municipal UCR reporter (2,084 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.