Fountain Inn, SC has a A safety grade (84/100) with a violent crime rate of 79 per 100,000, 78% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Fountain Inn (13,996 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then SC and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Fountain Inn, SC carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 78% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Fountain Inn, SC shows violent crime at 78.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 978.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 78% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade A from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 563.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 78.6 in 2024 (-86.1%). The highest observed value was 563.8 in 2020 and the lowest 78.6 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Small-count caution
Fountain Inn reported 11 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 13,996. 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 Fountain Inn's 78.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Central (56.2), Wellford (107.4), Fort Mill (45.9), Pine Ridge (42.9). 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 78.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Fountain Inn ranks 128 of 149 — above 21 of the 148 other South Carolina cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -81.2% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 7.4% of the 148 Part I offenses reported in Fountain Inn for 2024, against a median of 15.0% across comparable South Carolina cities — a gap of 7.6 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 Fountain Inn'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 11 reported violent incidents in a population of 13,996. 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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 8.6 Census sq mi, Fountain Inn logged 15.9 property and 1.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Fountain Inn's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (71% of 148 offenses; mix index 5,323).
Violent offenses are only 7% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Fountain Inn offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (8.6 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 137 | 978.9 |
| Larceny-Theft | 105 | 750.2 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 19 | 135.8 |
| Burglary | 13 | 92.9 |
| Arson | 2 | 14.3 |
| Violent Crime | 11 | 78.6 |
| Aggravated Assault | 10 | 71.4 |
| Robbery | 1 | 7.1 |
| 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 | 10,820 | 563.8 | 2088.7 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 11,306 | 371.5 | 2237.7 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 11,523 | 451.3 | 1787.7 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 12,434 | 329.7 | 1335 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 13,996 | 78.6 | 978.9 |
Fountain Inn Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Fountain Inn's 148 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 Fountain Inn in population. Their populations run from 12,178 to 16,931, against 13,996 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Fountain Inn sits at 78.6/100K violent (grade A); the South Carolina cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Fountain Inn at 78.6/100K violent and 978.9/100K property - matched below outside South Carolina (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
78.6/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
978.9/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Fountain Inn reported 11 violent crimes and 137 property crimes, for a total of 148 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Fountain Inn's violent crime rate decreased by 76.2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 26.7%.
The most common crime type in Fountain Inn is larceny-theft, accounting for 70.9% of all reported crimes (105 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Fountain Inn 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.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Fountain Inn's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Fountain Inn, 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. Fountain Inn is scored in the mid-size municipal band (13,996 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.