Summerville, SC has a B safety grade (62/100) with a violent crime rate of 222 per 100,000, 37% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Summerville, SC Crime Rate & Safety
At 52,148 residents, Summerville 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.
Summerville, SC carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 37% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Summerville, SC shows violent crime at 222.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,768 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 37% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
B safety grade
222.4/100K violent
1768/100K property
-37% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Summerville, SC
Comparable rate records
Summerville's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the South Carolina cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Summerville's 222.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Hanahan (225.2), Mauldin (219.3), Gaffney (225.8), Landrum (216.7). 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 351.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 222.4 in 2024 (-36.8%). The highest observed value was 452.9 in 2023 and the lowest 222.4 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
Summerville sits mid-pack among comparable South Carolina cities
At 222.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Summerville ranks 109 of 149 — above 40 of the 148 other South Carolina cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -46.9% 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
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 11.2% of the 1,038 Part I offenses reported in Summerville for 2024, against a median of 15.0% across comparable South Carolina cities — a gap of 3.9 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 counts dominate Summerville'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.
Summerville's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 22.6 Census sq mi, Summerville logged 40.8 property and 5.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Summerville's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (78% of 1,038 offenses; mix index 6,177).
Violent offenses are only 11% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (22.6 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Both rates shifted (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-50.9%
452.9 → 222.4/100K
Property Crime Rate
-45.2%
3226.3 → 1768/100K
Property offenses lead Summerville's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs SC
Property Crime
922
1768
1988.2
Larceny-Theft
806
1545.6
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
65
124.6
-
Burglary
51
97.8
-
Arson
3
5.8
-
Violent Crime
116
222.4
439.3
Aggravated Assault
94
180.3
-
Robbery
11
21.1
-
Rape
9
17.3
-
Murder
2
3.8
-
Summerville Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Summerville 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
Summerville Police Department
Reporting agency for Summerville NIBRS-participating
Summerville Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Summerville's 1,038 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
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Summerville at 222.4/100K violent and 1,768/100K property - matched below outside South Carolina (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Summerville reported 116 violent crimes and 922 property crimes, for a total of 1,038 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Summerville?
From 2023 to 2024, Summerville's violent crime rate decreased by 50.9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 45.2%.
What is the most common crime in Summerville?
The most common crime type in Summerville is larceny-theft, accounting for 77.6% of all reported crimes (806 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Summerville'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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Summerville, SC rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.