Georgetown, SC is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 142% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Georgetown, SC shows violent crime at 850.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,604.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 142% 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
850.1/100K violent
3604.2/100K property
+142% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Georgetown, SC
Comparable rate records
Georgetown's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the South Carolina cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Georgetown's 850.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are St. George (872.9), Ware Shoals (822.1), Marion (881.9), Bishopville (815.9). 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
Georgetown reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable South Carolina cities
At 850.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Georgetown ranks 36 of 149 — above 113 of the 148 other South Carolina cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +105.0% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 1264.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 850.1 in 2024 (-32.8%). The highest observed value was 1766.2 in 2022 and the lowest 850.1 in 2024. 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 19.1% of the 393 Part I offenses reported in Georgetown for 2024, against a median of 14.9% across comparable South Carolina cities — a gap of 4.2 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 Georgetown'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.
Georgetown's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 7 Census sq mi, Georgetown logged 45.5 property and 10.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Georgetown's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (66% of 393 offenses; mix index 4,797).
Violent offenses are 19% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (7 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
-38.8%
1389.4 → 850.1/100K
Property Crime Rate
-15.9%
4283.9 → 3604.2/100K
Property offenses lead Georgetown's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs SC
Property Crime
318
3604.2
1711
1988.2
Larceny-Theft
261
2958.2
-
-
Burglary
34
385.4
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
23
260.7
-
-
Arson
3
34
-
-
Violent Crime
75
850.1
352
439.3
Aggravated Assault
65
736.7
-
-
Rape
6
68
-
-
Robbery
4
45.3
-
-
Murder
0
0
-
-
Georgetown Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Georgetown 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
Georgetown Police Department
Reporting agency for Georgetown NIBRS-participating
Georgetown Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Georgetown's 393 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 Georgetown in population. Their populations run from 7,743 to 9,366, against 8,823 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Georgetown reported 75 violent crimes and 318 property crimes, for a total of 393 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Georgetown?
From 2023 to 2024, Georgetown's violent crime rate decreased by 38.8%, and the property crime rate decreased by 15.9%.
What is the most common crime in Georgetown?
The most common crime type in Georgetown is larceny-theft, accounting for 66.4% of all reported crimes (261 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Georgetown 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 Georgetown, SC rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.