Mullins, SC is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 351% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Mullins, SC shows violent crime at 1,586.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 4,993.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 351% 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
1586.5/100K violent
4993.5/100K property
+351% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Mullins, SC
Position in the state cohort
Mullins reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable South Carolina cities
At 1586.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Mullins ranks 11 of 149 — above 138 of the 148 other South Carolina cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +282.6% 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.
Comparable rate records
Mullins's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the South Carolina cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Mullins's 1586.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Chester (1554.1), Spartanburg (1480.1), Bamberg (1723.6), Hartsville (1745.8). 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 1239.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 1586.5 in 2024 (+28.0%). The highest observed value was 1586.5 in 2024 and the lowest 926.9 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 24.1% of the 253 Part I offenses reported in Mullins for 2024, against a median of 14.9% across comparable South Carolina cities — a gap of 9.2 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-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 72.4% of reported property offenses in Mullins, against a cohort median of 80.6%. The remainder is burglary (43) and motor vehicle theft (10). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Mullins'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.
Mullins's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 3.2 Census sq mi, Mullins logged 60.1 property and 19.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Mullins leans on larceny-theft at 55% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,692.
Violent offenses are 24% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (3.2 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
+10.5%
1436 → 1586.5/100K
Property Crime Rate
+3.9%
4804.2 → 4993.5/100K
Property offenses lead Mullins's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs SC
Property Crime
192
4993.5
1711
1988.2
Larceny-Theft
139
3615.1
-
-
Burglary
43
1118.3
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
10
260.1
-
-
Arson
0
0
-
-
Violent Crime
61
1586.5
352
439.3
Aggravated Assault
48
1248.4
-
-
Robbery
6
156
-
-
Murder
4
104
-
-
Rape
3
78
-
-
Mullins Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Mullins property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Mullins Police Department
Reporting agency for Mullins NIBRS-participating
Mullins Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Mullins's 253 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 Mullins in population. Their populations run from 3,388 to 4,275, against 3,845 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Mullins reported 61 violent crimes and 192 property crimes, for a total of 253 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Mullins?
From 2023 to 2024, Mullins's violent crime rate increased by 10.5%, and the property crime rate increased by 3.9%.
What is the most common crime in Mullins?
The most common crime type in Mullins is larceny-theft, accounting for 54.9% of all reported crimes (139 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Mullins 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 Mullins, SC rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.