Hartsville, SC is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 396% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Hartsville, SC shows violent crime at 1,745.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 4,845 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 396% 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
1745.8/100K violent
4845/100K property
+396% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Hartsville, SC
Position in the state cohort
Hartsville reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable South Carolina cities
At 1745.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Hartsville ranks 9 of 149 — above 140 of the 148 other South Carolina cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +321.1% 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 higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 1157.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 1745.8 in 2024 (+50.9%). The highest observed value was 1807.1 in 2023 and the lowest 1157.1 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
Hartsville's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the South Carolina cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Hartsville's 1745.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Bamberg (1723.6), Lake City (1802.3), Mullins (1586.5), Chester (1554.1). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 26.5% of the 487 Part I offenses reported in Hartsville for 2024, against a median of 14.9% across comparable South Carolina cities — a gap of 11.6 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 Hartsville'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.
Hartsville's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 6 Census sq mi, Hartsville logged 59.5 property and 21.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Hartsville's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (59% of 487 offenses; mix index 4,167).
Violent offenses are 26% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (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.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
-20.5%
6095.8 → 4845/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-3.4%
1807.1 → 1745.8/100K
Property offenses lead Hartsville's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs SC
Property Crime
358
4845
1711
1988.2
Larceny-Theft
289
3911.2
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
36
487.2
-
-
Burglary
33
446.6
-
-
Arson
6
81.2
-
-
Violent Crime
129
1745.8
352
439.3
Aggravated Assault
113
1529.3
-
-
Robbery
10
135.3
-
-
Rape
5
67.7
-
-
Murder
1
13.5
-
-
Hartsville Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Hartsville 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
Hartsville Police Department
Reporting agency for Hartsville NIBRS-participating
Hartsville Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Hartsville's 487 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
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In 2024, Hartsville reported 129 violent crimes and 358 property crimes, for a total of 487 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Hartsville?
From 2023 to 2024, Hartsville's violent crime rate decreased by 3.4%, and the property crime rate decreased by 20.5%.
What is the most common crime in Hartsville?
The most common crime type in Hartsville is larceny-theft, accounting for 59.3% of all reported crimes (289 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Hartsville 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 Hartsville, SC rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.