Greenville, SC has a F safety grade (6/100) with a violent crime rate of 644 per 100,000, 83% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Greenville, SC Crime Rate & Safety
At 73,405 residents, Greenville 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.
Greenville, SC carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 83% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Greenville, SC shows violent crime at 644.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,468.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 83% 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
644.4/100K violent
3468.4/100K property
+83% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Greenville, SC
Comparable rate records
Greenville's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the South Carolina cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Greenville's 644.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Denmark (650.0), Hampton (620.4), Seneca (615.0), Williamston (678.4). 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
Greenville sits mid-pack among comparable South Carolina cities
At 644.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Greenville ranks 56 of 149 — above 93 of the 148 other South Carolina cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +55.4% 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 694.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 644.4 in 2024 (-7.2%). The highest observed value was 694.3 in 2020 and the lowest 542.9 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Greenville'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.
Greenville's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 30.3 Census sq mi, Greenville logged 84 property and 15.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Greenville's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (69% of 3,019 offenses; mix index 5,115).
Violent offenses are 16% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (30.3 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
-7.7%
3759.5 → 3468.4/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+5%
614 → 644.4/100K
Property offenses lead Greenville's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs SC
Property Crime
2,546
3468.4
1711
1988.2
Larceny-Theft
2,098
2858.1
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
225
306.5
-
-
Burglary
223
303.8
-
-
Arson
2
2.7
-
-
Violent Crime
473
644.4
352
439.3
Aggravated Assault
397
540.8
-
-
Robbery
47
64
-
-
Rape
22
30
-
-
Murder
7
9.5
-
-
Greenville Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Greenville 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
Greenville Police Department
Reporting agency for Greenville NIBRS-participating
Greenville Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Greenville's 3,019 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 Greenville in population. Their populations run from 40,781 to 96,608, against 73,405 here. Or use our
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Greenville at 644.4/100K violent and 3,468.4/100K property - matched below outside South Carolina (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Greenville reported 473 violent crimes and 2,546 property crimes, for a total of 3,019 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Greenville?
From 2023 to 2024, Greenville's violent crime rate increased by 5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 7.7%.
What is the most common crime in Greenville?
The most common crime type in Greenville is larceny-theft, accounting for 69.5% of all reported crimes (2,098 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Greenville'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 Greenville, SC rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.