Orangeburg, SC carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 254% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Orangeburg, SC shows violent crime at 1,246.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 6,208.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 254% 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
1246.2/100K violent
6208.7/100K property
+254% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Orangeburg, SC
Position in the state cohort
Orangeburg reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable South Carolina cities
At 1246.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Orangeburg ranks 16 of 149 — above 133 of the 148 other South Carolina cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +200.6% 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
Orangeburg's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the South Carolina cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Orangeburg's 1246.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Santee (1240.7), McColl (1269.7), Clinton (1278.6), Barnwell (1207.7). 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 1747.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 1246.2 in 2024 (-28.7%). The highest observed value was 2083.5 in 2021 and the lowest 1246.2 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Orangeburg'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.
Orangeburg's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 9 Census sq mi, Orangeburg logged 91.8 property and 18.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Orangeburg's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (61% of 993 offenses; mix index 4,200).
Violent offenses are 17% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (9 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
-21.7%
1592 → 1246.2/100K
Property Crime Rate
-4.4%
6494.6 → 6208.7/100K
Property offenses lead Orangeburg's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs SC
Property Crime
827
6208.7
1711
1988.2
Larceny-Theft
607
4557.1
-
-
Burglary
148
1111.1
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
72
540.5
-
-
Arson
5
37.5
-
-
Violent Crime
166
1246.2
352
439.3
Aggravated Assault
134
1006
-
-
Robbery
25
187.7
-
-
Murder
4
30
-
-
Rape
3
22.5
-
-
Orangeburg Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Orangeburg 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
Orangeburg Police Department
Reporting agency for Orangeburg NIBRS-participating
Orangeburg Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Orangeburg's 993 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 Orangeburg in population. Their populations run from 10,926 to 14,456, against 13,320 here. Or use our
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Orangeburg at 1,246.2/100K violent and 6,208.7/100K property - matched below outside South Carolina (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Orangeburg reported 166 violent crimes and 827 property crimes, for a total of 993 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Orangeburg?
From 2023 to 2024, Orangeburg's violent crime rate decreased by 21.7%, and the property crime rate decreased by 4.4%.
What is the most common crime in Orangeburg?
The most common crime type in Orangeburg is larceny-theft, accounting for 61.1% of all reported crimes (607 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Orangeburg 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 Orangeburg, SC rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.