North Myrtle Beach, SC has a D safety grade (36/100) with a violent crime rate of 361 per 100,000, 3% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
North Myrtle Beach, SC Crime Rate & Safety
North Myrtle Beach (20,790 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then SC and national benchmarks.
North Myrtle Beach, SC carries a PlainCrime D safety grade with violent crime 3% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, North Myrtle Beach, SC shows violent crime at 360.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,222.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 3% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade D from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
D safety grade
360.8/100K violent
3222.7/100K property
+3% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for North Myrtle Beach, SC
Comparable rate records
North Myrtle Beach's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the South Carolina cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to North Myrtle Beach's 360.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Inman (359.9), Charleston (357.6), Cowpens (356.0), Gaston (366.1). 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 lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 587.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 360.8 in 2024 (-38.6%). The highest observed value was 587.8 in 2020 and the lowest 360.8 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 10.1% of the 745 Part I offenses reported in North Myrtle Beach for 2024, against a median of 15.0% across comparable South Carolina cities — a gap of 5.0 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.
Position in the state cohort
North Myrtle Beach sits mid-pack among comparable South Carolina cities
At 360.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, North Myrtle Beach ranks 82 of 149 — above 67 of the 148 other South Carolina cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -13.9% 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.
Property counts dominate North 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.
North Myrtle Beach's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 22.4 Census sq mi, North Myrtle Beach logged 29.9 property and 3.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
North Myrtle Beach's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (77% of 745 offenses; mix index 6,125).
Violent offenses are only 10% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (22.4 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Both rates shifted (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-20.3%
452.7 → 360.8/100K
Property Crime Rate
-19.8%
4020.5 → 3222.7/100K
Property offenses lead North Myrtle Beach's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs SC
Property Crime
670
3222.7
1711
1988.2
Larceny-Theft
576
2770.6
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
49
235.7
-
-
Burglary
45
216.5
-
-
Arson
3
14.4
-
-
Violent Crime
75
360.8
352
439.3
Aggravated Assault
60
288.6
-
-
Rape
12
57.7
-
-
Robbery
3
14.4
-
-
Murder
0
0
-
-
North Myrtle Beach Crime Trend (2020-2024)
North 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
North Myrtle Beach Police Department
Reporting agency for North Myrtle Beach NIBRS-participating
North Myrtle Beach Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind North Myrtle Beach's 745 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 North Myrtle Beach in population. Their populations run from 16,931 to 26,377, against 20,790 here. Or use our
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North Myrtle Beach at 360.8/100K violent and 3,222.7/100K property - matched below outside South Carolina (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
How many crimes were reported in North Myrtle Beach?
In 2024, North Myrtle Beach reported 75 violent crimes and 670 property crimes, for a total of 745 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in North Myrtle Beach?
From 2023 to 2024, North Myrtle Beach's violent crime rate decreased by 20.3%, and the property crime rate decreased by 19.8%.
What is the most common crime in North Myrtle Beach?
The most common crime type in North Myrtle Beach is larceny-theft, accounting for 77.3% of all reported crimes (576 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: North 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 North Myrtle Beach, SC rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.