Spartanburg, SC carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 320% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Spartanburg, SC shows violent crime at 1,480.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 5,228.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 320% 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
1480.1/100K violent
5228.9/100K property
+320% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Spartanburg, SC
Position in the state cohort
Spartanburg reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable South Carolina cities
At 1480.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Spartanburg ranks 13 of 149 — above 136 of the 148 other South Carolina cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +257.0% 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
Spartanburg's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the South Carolina cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Spartanburg's 1480.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Chester (1554.1), Mullins (1586.5), Clinton (1278.6), McColl (1269.7). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 22.1% of the 2,629 Part I offenses reported in Spartanburg for 2024, against a median of 14.9% across comparable South Carolina cities — a gap of 7.2 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
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 69.9% of reported property offenses in Spartanburg, against a cohort median of 80.6%. The remainder is burglary (370) and motor vehicle theft (247). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window close to where it started
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 1451.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 1480.1 in 2024 (+1.9%). The highest observed value was 1599.7 in 2023 and the lowest 1251.6 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Spartanburg'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.
Spartanburg's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 20.3 Census sq mi, Spartanburg logged 101.2 property and 28.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Spartanburg leans on larceny-theft at 54% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,595.
Violent offenses are 22% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (20.3 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
-21.3%
6647.8 → 5228.9/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-7.5%
1599.7 → 1480.1/100K
Property offenses lead Spartanburg's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs SC
Property Crime
2,049
5228.9
1711
1988.2
Larceny-Theft
1,432
3654.4
-
-
Burglary
370
944.2
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
247
630.3
-
-
Arson
20
51
-
-
Violent Crime
580
1480.1
352
439.3
Aggravated Assault
480
1224.9
-
-
Robbery
64
163.3
-
-
Rape
34
86.8
-
-
Murder
2
5.1
-
-
Spartanburg Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Spartanburg 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
Spartanburg Police Department
Reporting agency for Spartanburg NIBRS-participating
Spartanburg Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Spartanburg's 2,629 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 Spartanburg in population. Their populations run from 30,150 to 47,690, against 39,186 here. Or use our
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Spartanburg at 1,480.1/100K violent and 5,228.9/100K property - matched below outside South Carolina (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Spartanburg reported 580 violent crimes and 2,049 property crimes, for a total of 2,629 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Spartanburg?
From 2023 to 2024, Spartanburg's violent crime rate decreased by 7.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 21.3%.
What is the most common crime in Spartanburg?
The most common crime type in Spartanburg is larceny-theft, accounting for 54.5% of all reported crimes (1,432 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Spartanburg 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 Spartanburg, SC rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.