Goose Creek, SC has a B safety grade (62/100) with a violent crime rate of 257 per 100,000, 27% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Goose Creek, SC Crime Rate & Safety
At 50,294 residents, Goose Creek is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against SC and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Goose Creek, SC carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 27% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Goose Creek, SC shows violent crime at 256.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,465.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 27% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
B safety grade
256.5/100K violent
1465.4/100K property
-27% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Goose Creek, SC
Comparable rate records
Goose Creek's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the South Carolina cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Goose Creek's 256.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Iva (252.3), Travelers Rest (264.1), Jonesville (246.3), Prosperity (244.9). 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
Goose Creek sits mid-pack among comparable South Carolina cities
At 256.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Goose Creek ranks 98 of 149 — above 51 of the 148 other South Carolina cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -38.8% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window close to where it started
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 258.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 256.5 in 2024 (-0.7%). The highest observed value was 268.0 in 2021 and the lowest 242.1 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Goose Creek'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.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Goose Creek's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 43.4 Census sq mi, Goose Creek logged 17 property and 3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Goose Creek's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (63% of 866 offenses; mix index 4,352).
Violent offenses are only 15% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (43.4 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
+5.9%
242.1 → 256.5/100K
Property Crime Rate
-2.3%
1500.3 → 1465.4/100K
Property offenses lead Goose Creek's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs SC
Property Crime
737
1465.4
1988.2
Larceny-Theft
545
1083.6
-
Burglary
127
252.5
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
65
129.2
-
Arson
2
4
-
Violent Crime
129
256.5
439.3
Aggravated Assault
92
182.9
-
Rape
18
35.8
-
Robbery
15
29.8
-
Murder
4
8
-
Goose Creek Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Goose Creek 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
Goose Creek Police Department
Reporting agency for Goose Creek NIBRS-participating
Goose Creek Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Goose Creek's 866 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 Goose Creek in population. Their populations run from 37,027 to 52,148, against 50,294 here. Or use our
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Goose Creek at 256.5/100K violent and 1,465.4/100K property - matched below outside South Carolina (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Goose Creek reported 129 violent crimes and 737 property crimes, for a total of 866 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Goose Creek?
From 2023 to 2024, Goose Creek's violent crime rate increased by 5.9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 2.3%.
What is the most common crime in Goose Creek?
The most common crime type in Goose Creek is larceny-theft, accounting for 62.9% of all reported crimes (545 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Goose Creek's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Goose Creek, SC rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.