Rock Hill, SC has a D safety grade (36/100) with a violent crime rate of 441 per 100,000, 25% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
At 75,975 residents, Rock Hill is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against SC and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Rock Hill, SC carries a PlainCrime D safety grade with violent crime 25% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Rock Hill, SC shows violent crime at 440.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,348.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 25% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Rock Hill's 440.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Conway (444.6), Ridgeland (426.6), Elgin (424.2), Loris (420.9). 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 706.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 440.9 in 2024 (-37.6%). The highest observed value was 706.4 in 2020 and the lowest 440.9 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 440.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Rock Hill ranks 71 of 149 — above 78 of the 148 other South Carolina cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +6.3% 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.
Property counts dominate Rock Hill'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.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Across 44.5 Census sq mi, Rock Hill logged 40.1 property and 7.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Rock Hill's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (65% of 2,119 offenses; mix index 4,553).
Violent offenses are 16% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Rock Hill offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (44.5 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 | 1,784 | 2348.1 |
| Larceny-Theft | 1,373 | 1807.2 |
| Burglary | 209 | 275.1 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 202 | 265.9 |
| Arson | 4 | 5.3 |
| Violent Crime | 335 | 440.9 |
| Aggravated Assault | 270 | 355.4 |
| Robbery | 30 | 39.5 |
| Rape | 26 | 34.2 |
| Murder | 9 | 11.8 |
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 | 76,016 | 706.4 | 2881 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 77,334 | 634.9 | 2471.1 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 74,047 | 501 | 2753.7 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 75,681 | 518 | 2696.8 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 75,975 | 440.9 | 2348.1 |
Rock Hill Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Rock Hill's 2,119 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 Rock Hill in population. Their populations run from 40,781 to 96,608, against 75,975 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Rock Hill sits at 440.9/100K violent (grade D); the South Carolina cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Rock Hill at 440.9/100K violent and 2,348.1/100K property - matched below outside South Carolina (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
440.9/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
2,348.1/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-14.9% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Rock Hill reported 335 violent crimes and 1,784 property crimes, for a total of 2,119 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Rock Hill's violent crime rate decreased by 14.9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 12.9%.
The most common crime type in Rock Hill is larceny-theft, accounting for 64.8% of all reported crimes (1,373 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Rock Hill's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Large-city rate methodology for how Rock Hill's large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Rock Hill, SC rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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