Lexington, SC carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 66% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Lexington, SC shows violent crime at 118.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,565.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 66% 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.
A safety grade
118.3/100K violent
1565.5/100K property
-66% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Lexington, SC
Comparable rate records
Lexington's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the South Carolina cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Lexington's 118.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Bluffton (118.6), Mount Pleasant (128.4), Wellford (107.4), Port Royal (129.9). 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
Lexington reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable South Carolina cities
At 118.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Lexington ranks 126 of 149 — above 23 of the 148 other South Carolina cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -71.8% 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 lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 212.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 118.3 in 2024 (-44.3%). The highest observed value was 280.6 in 2021 and the lowest 118.3 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 7.0% of the 427 Part I offenses reported in Lexington for 2024, against a median of 15.0% across comparable South Carolina cities — a gap of 8.0 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 Lexington'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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Lexington's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 12 Census sq mi, Lexington logged 33.2 property and 2.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Lexington's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (81% of 427 offenses; mix index 6,751).
Violent offenses are only 7% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (12 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
-30.9%
171.1 → 118.3/100K
Property Crime Rate
+15.4%
1357.1 → 1565.5/100K
Property offenses lead Lexington's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs SC
Property Crime
397
1565.5
1988.2
Larceny-Theft
348
1372.3
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
25
98.6
-
Burglary
24
94.6
-
Arson
1
3.9
-
Violent Crime
30
118.3
439.3
Aggravated Assault
28
110.4
-
Rape
2
7.9
-
Murder
0
0
-
Robbery
0
0
-
Lexington Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Lexington 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
Lexington Police Department
Reporting agency for Lexington NIBRS-participating
Lexington Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Lexington's 427 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 Lexington in population. Their populations run from 20,790 to 29,180, against 25,359 here. Or use our
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Lexington at 118.3/100K violent and 1,565.5/100K property - matched below outside South Carolina (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Lexington reported 30 violent crimes and 397 property crimes, for a total of 427 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Lexington?
From 2023 to 2024, Lexington's violent crime rate decreased by 30.9%, and the property crime rate increased by 15.4%.
What is the most common crime in Lexington?
The most common crime type in Lexington is larceny-theft, accounting for 81.5% of all reported crimes (348 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Lexington 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Lexington, SC rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.