Mount Pleasant, SC has a A safety grade (77/100) with a violent crime rate of 128 per 100,000, 64% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Mount Pleasant, SC Crime Rate & Safety
At 96,608 residents, Mount Pleasant 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.
Mount Pleasant, SC carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 64% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Mount Pleasant, SC shows violent crime at 128.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,171.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 64% 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
128.4/100K violent
1171.7/100K property
-64% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Mount Pleasant, SC
Comparable rate records
Mount Pleasant's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the South Carolina cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Mount Pleasant's 128.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Port Royal (129.9), Lake View (131.9), Isle of Palms (137.1), Bluffton (118.6). 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
Mount Pleasant reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable South Carolina cities
At 128.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Mount Pleasant ranks 124 of 149 — above 25 of the 148 other South Carolina cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -69.4% 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 higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 106.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 128.4 in 2024 (+20.4%). The highest observed value was 148.5 in 2023 and the lowest 97.2 in 2021. 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 9.9% of the 1,256 Part I offenses reported in Mount Pleasant for 2024, against a median of 15.0% across comparable South Carolina cities — a gap of 5.2 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 Mount Pleasant'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.
Mount Pleasant's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 49.7 Census sq mi, Mount Pleasant logged 22.8 property and 2.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Mount Pleasant's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (77% of 1,256 offenses; mix index 6,059).
Violent offenses are only 10% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (49.7 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
-13.5%
148.5 → 128.4/100K
Property Crime Rate
-10.9%
1315.4 → 1171.7/100K
Property offenses lead Mount Pleasant's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs SC
Property Crime
1,132
1171.7
1988.2
Larceny-Theft
966
999.9
-
Burglary
95
98.3
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
71
73.5
-
Arson
3
3.1
-
Violent Crime
124
128.4
439.3
Aggravated Assault
89
92.1
-
Robbery
21
21.7
-
Rape
14
14.5
-
Murder
0
0
-
Mount Pleasant Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Mount Pleasant 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
Mount Pleasant Police Department
Reporting agency for Mount Pleasant NIBRS-participating
Mount Pleasant Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Mount Pleasant's 1,256 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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Mount Pleasant at 128.4/100K violent and 1,171.7/100K property - matched below outside South Carolina (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Mount Pleasant reported 124 violent crimes and 1,132 property crimes, for a total of 1,256 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Mount Pleasant?
From 2023 to 2024, Mount Pleasant's violent crime rate decreased by 13.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 10.9%.
What is the most common crime in Mount Pleasant?
The most common crime type in Mount Pleasant is larceny-theft, accounting for 76.9% of all reported crimes (966 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Mount Pleasant'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 Mount Pleasant, SC rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.