North Augusta, SC has a A+ safety grade (93/100) with a violent crime rate of 34 per 100,000, 90% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
North Augusta (26,377 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then SC and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
North Augusta, SC carries a PlainCrime A+ safety grade with violent crime 90% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, North Augusta, SC shows violent crime at 34.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 409.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 90% 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.
Small-count caution
North Augusta reported 9 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 26,377. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 198.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 34.1 in 2024 (-82.8%). The highest observed value was 198.8 in 2020 and the lowest 34.1 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 34.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, North Augusta ranks 132 of 149 — above 17 of the 148 other South Carolina cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -91.9% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to North Augusta's 34.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Burnettown (30.9), Tega Cay (27.7), Pine Ridge (42.9), Fort Mill (45.9). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 7.7% of the 117 Part I offenses reported in North Augusta for 2024, against a median of 15.0% across comparable South Carolina cities — a gap of 7.3 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
Larceny-theft is 92.6% of reported property offenses in North Augusta, against a cohort median of 80.3%. The remainder is burglary (2) and motor vehicle theft (6). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate North Augusta'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.
Based on 9 reported violent incidents in a population of 26,377. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 21.4 Census sq mi, North Augusta logged 5 property and 0.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
North Augusta's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (85% of 117 offenses; mix index 7,372).
Violent offenses are only 8% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
North Augusta offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (21.4 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 108 | 409.4 |
| Larceny-Theft | 100 | 379.1 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 6 | 22.7 |
| Burglary | 2 | 7.6 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 9 | 34.1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 7 | 26.5 |
| Rape | 1 | 3.8 |
| Robbery | 1 | 3.8 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 24,139 | 198.8 | 3003.4 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 24,435 | 196.4 | 2353.2 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 24,957 | 172.3 | 2300 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 25,655 | 93.5 | 1789.1 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 26,377 | 34.1 | 409.4 |
North Augusta Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind North Augusta's 117 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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the South Carolina cities closest to North Augusta in population. Their populations run from 22,205 to 30,150, against 26,377 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
North Augusta sits at 34.1/100K violent (grade A+); the South Carolina cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
North Augusta at 34.1/100K violent and 409.4/100K property - matched below outside South Carolina (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
34.1/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
409.4/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-63.5% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, North Augusta reported 9 violent crimes and 108 property crimes, for a total of 117 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, North Augusta's violent crime rate decreased by 63.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 77.1%.
The most common crime type in North Augusta is larceny-theft, accounting for 85.5% of all reported crimes (100 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: North Augusta 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.
Mid-size rate methodology for how North Augusta's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 North Augusta, SC rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. North Augusta is scored in the mid-size municipal band (26,377 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.