Forest Acres, SC carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 17% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Forest Acres, SC shows violent crime at 291 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,404.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 17% 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.
C safety grade
291/100K violent
3404.8/100K property
-17% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Forest Acres, SC
Comparable rate records
Forest Acres's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the South Carolina cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Forest Acres's 291.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Pickens (295.2), Pendleton (296.4), Liberty (304.0), Pacolet (314.6). 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 lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 408.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 291.0 in 2024 (-28.8%). The highest observed value was 445.0 in 2023 and the lowest 291.0 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 7.9% of the 381 Part I offenses reported in Forest Acres for 2024, against a median of 15.0% across comparable South Carolina cities — a gap of 7.2 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.
Position in the state cohort
Forest Acres sits mid-pack among comparable South Carolina cities
At 291.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Forest Acres ranks 96 of 149 — above 53 of the 148 other South Carolina cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -30.5% 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 Forest Acres'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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Forest Acres's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 4.6 Census sq mi, Forest Acres logged 75.8 property and 6.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Forest Acres's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (80% of 381 offenses; mix index 6,551).
Violent offenses are only 8% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (4.6 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
-34.6%
445 → 291/100K
Property Crime Rate
+6.3%
3202.1 → 3404.8/100K
Property offenses lead Forest Acres's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs SC
Property Crime
351
3404.8
1711
1988.2
Larceny-Theft
306
2968.3
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
23
223.1
-
-
Burglary
22
213.4
-
-
Arson
1
9.7
-
-
Violent Crime
30
291
352
439.3
Aggravated Assault
20
194
-
-
Robbery
5
48.5
-
-
Rape
4
38.8
-
-
Murder
1
9.7
-
-
Forest Acres Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Forest Acres property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Forest Acres Police Department
Reporting agency for Forest Acres NIBRS-participating
Forest Acres Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Forest Acres's 381 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 Forest Acres in population. Their populations run from 8,651 to 10,926, against 10,309 here. Or use our
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Forest Acres at 291/100K violent and 3,404.8/100K property - matched below outside South Carolina (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Forest Acres reported 30 violent crimes and 351 property crimes, for a total of 381 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Forest Acres?
From 2023 to 2024, Forest Acres's violent crime rate decreased by 34.6%, and the property crime rate increased by 6.3%.
What is the most common crime in Forest Acres?
The most common crime type in Forest Acres is larceny-theft, accounting for 80.3% of all reported crimes (306 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Forest Acres figures are FBI UCR CIUS Table 8 (vintage 2024), population-adjusted per 100,000.
Denominators are the reporting-year population on the municipal row. Incomplete years are dropped from rankings. Confirm at FBI Crime Data Explorer and Census.gov QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (mid-size municipal): figures are informational, not advice. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is the source. Consult a professional before decisions.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Forest Acres, SC rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.