Port Royal, SC has a A safety grade (76/100) with a violent crime rate of 130 per 100,000, 63% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Port Royal (16,931 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
Port Royal, SC carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 63% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Port Royal, SC shows violent crime at 129.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,222.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 63% 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
Port Royal reported 22 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 16,931. 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 280.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 129.9 in 2024 (-53.7%). The highest observed value was 320.6 in 2021 and the lowest 129.9 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Port Royal's 129.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Mount Pleasant (128.4), Lake View (131.9), Isle of Palms (137.1), Bluffton (118.6). 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
At 129.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Port Royal ranks 123 of 149 — above 26 of the 148 other South Carolina cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -69.0% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 9.6% of the 229 Part I offenses reported in Port Royal for 2024, against a median of 15.0% across comparable South Carolina cities — a gap of 5.4 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 counts dominate Port Royal'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 22 reported violent incidents in a population of 16,931. 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 17 Census sq mi, Port Royal logged 12.2 property and 1.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Port Royal's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (79% of 229 offenses; mix index 6,306).
Violent offenses are only 10% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Port Royal offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (17 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 | 207 | 1222.6 |
| Larceny-Theft | 180 | 1063.1 |
| Burglary | 18 | 106.3 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 9 | 53.2 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 22 | 129.9 |
| Aggravated Assault | 15 | 88.6 |
| Rape | 6 | 35.4 |
| Robbery | 1 | 5.9 |
| 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 | 13,553 | 280.4 | 1520 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 14,970 | 320.6 | 1302.6 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 13,430 | 260.6 | 1250.9 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 16,230 | 154 | 1232.3 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 16,931 | 129.9 | 1222.6 |
Port Royal Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Port Royal's 229 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 Port Royal in population. Their populations run from 13,628 to 18,591, against 16,931 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Port Royal sits at 129.9/100K violent (grade A); the South Carolina cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Port Royal at 129.9/100K violent and 1,222.6/100K property - matched below outside South Carolina (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
129.9/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,222.6/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Port Royal reported 22 violent crimes and 207 property crimes, for a total of 229 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Port Royal's violent crime rate decreased by 15.6%, and the property crime rate decreased by 0.8%.
The most common crime type in Port Royal is larceny-theft, accounting for 78.6% of all reported crimes (180 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Port Royal 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 Port Royal's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Port Royal, SC rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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