Pine Ridge, SC has a A safety grade (87/100) with a violent crime rate of 43 per 100,000, 88% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small municipal
Pine Ridge's UCR row covers a small municipal population (2,332). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to SC and U.S. averages.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Pine Ridge, SC is among the safest cities in the country, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 88% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Pine Ridge, SC shows violent crime at 42.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 986.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 88% 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
Pine Ridge reported 1 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 2,332. 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 42.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Pine Ridge ranks 131 of 149 — above 18 of the 148 other South Carolina cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -89.8% 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 Pine Ridge's 42.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Fort Mill (45.9), North Augusta (34.1), Burnettown (30.9), Central (56.2). 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 4.2% of the 24 Part I offenses reported in Pine Ridge for 2024, against a median of 15.0% across comparable South Carolina cities — a gap of 10.9 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 69.6% of reported property offenses in Pine Ridge, against a cohort median of 80.6%. The remainder is burglary (4) and motor vehicle theft (3). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Pine Ridge'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 1 reported violent incidents in a population of 2,332. 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.
On a small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
Across 2.3 Census sq mi, Pine Ridge logged 10.1 property and 0.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Pine Ridge's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (67% of 24 offenses; mix index 4,896).
Violent offenses are only 4% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Pine Ridge offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (2.3 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 | 23 | 986.3 |
| Larceny-Theft | 16 | 686.1 |
| Burglary | 4 | 171.5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 3 | 128.6 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 1 | 42.9 |
| Aggravated Assault | 1 | 42.9 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 2,401 | 0 | 791.3 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 2,456 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 2,267 | 44.1 | 705.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 2,299 | 43.5 | 782.9 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 2,332 | 42.9 | 986.3 |
Pine Ridge Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Pine Ridge's 24 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 Pine Ridge in population. Their populations run from 2,247 to 2,543, against 2,332 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
In 2024, Pine Ridge reported 1 violent crimes and 23 property crimes, for a total of 24 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Pine Ridge's violent crime rate decreased by 1.4%, and the property crime rate increased by 26%.
The most common crime type in Pine Ridge is larceny-theft, accounting for 66.7% of all reported crimes (16 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Pine Ridge's FBI UCR Table 8 row (2024) is the only source for the rates above.
With a small population base, per-100,000 rates amplify sparse counts. Incomplete submissions are excluded from rankings. See FBI.gov UCR for the raw Table 8 file.
Disclaimer (small municipal): small-base rates are especially easy to misread. Informational only - not advice. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Micro-municipal rate methodology for how Pine Ridge's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Pine Ridge, SC rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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