Myrtle Beach, SC carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 216% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Myrtle Beach, SC shows violent crime at 1,111.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 5,655.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 216% 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
1111.6/100K violent
5655.5/100K property
+216% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Myrtle Beach, SC
Comparable rate records
Myrtle Beach's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the South Carolina cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Myrtle Beach's 1111.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Sumter (1097.5), Darlington (1130.9), Lancaster (1063.9), Cheraw (1163.7). 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
Myrtle Beach reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable South Carolina cities
At 1111.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Myrtle Beach ranks 22 of 149 — above 127 of the 148 other South Carolina cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +168.1% 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 lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 1391.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 1111.6 in 2024 (-20.1%). The highest observed value was 1391.0 in 2020 and the lowest 1007.5 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Myrtle Beach'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.
Myrtle Beach's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 23.4 Census sq mi, Myrtle Beach logged 99.1 property and 19.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Myrtle Beach's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (71% of 2,776 offenses; mix index 5,273).
Violent offenses are 16% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (23.4 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
+10.3%
1007.5 → 1111.6/100K
Property Crime Rate
-4.5%
5918.9 → 5655.5/100K
Property offenses lead Myrtle Beach's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs SC
Property Crime
2,320
5655.5
1711
1988.2
Larceny-Theft
1,975
4814.5
-
-
Burglary
183
446.1
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
162
394.9
-
-
Arson
12
29.3
-
-
Violent Crime
456
1111.6
352
439.3
Aggravated Assault
304
741.1
-
-
Rape
76
185.3
-
-
Robbery
71
173.1
-
-
Murder
5
12.2
-
-
Myrtle Beach Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Myrtle Beach 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
Myrtle Beach Police Department
Reporting agency for Myrtle Beach NIBRS-participating
Myrtle Beach Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Myrtle Beach's 2,776 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 Myrtle Beach in population. Their populations run from 33,221 to 50,294, against 41,022 here. Or use our
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Myrtle Beach at 1,111.6/100K violent and 5,655.5/100K property - matched below outside South Carolina (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Myrtle Beach reported 456 violent crimes and 2,320 property crimes, for a total of 2,776 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Myrtle Beach?
From 2023 to 2024, Myrtle Beach's violent crime rate increased by 10.3%, and the property crime rate decreased by 4.5%.
What is the most common crime in Myrtle Beach?
The most common crime type in Myrtle Beach is larceny-theft, accounting for 71.1% of all reported crimes (1,975 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Myrtle Beach 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 Myrtle Beach, SC rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.