Travelers Rest, SC has a C safety grade (52/100) with a violent crime rate of 264 per 100,000, 25% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Travelers Rest is a small municipal reporter (9,088 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with SC and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Travelers Rest, SC is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 25% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Travelers Rest, SC shows violent crime at 264.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,486.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 25% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 36.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 264.1 in 2024 (+617.6%). The highest observed value was 264.1 in 2024 and the lowest 12.8 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Small-count caution
Travelers Rest reported 24 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 9,088. 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Travelers Rest's 264.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Goose Creek (256.5), Iva (252.3), Jonesville (246.3), Prosperity (244.9). 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 264.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Travelers Rest ranks 97 of 149 — above 52 of the 148 other South Carolina cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -36.9% 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 93.8% of reported property offenses in Travelers Rest, against a cohort median of 80.3%. The remainder is burglary (7) and motor vehicle theft (7). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 9.6% of the 250 Part I offenses reported in Travelers Rest 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 Travelers Rest'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 24 reported violent incidents in a population of 9,088. 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.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Across 6.2 Census sq mi, Travelers Rest logged 36.2 property and 3.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Travelers Rest's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (85% of 250 offenses; mix index 7,266).
Violent offenses are only 10% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Travelers Rest offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (6.2 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 | 226 | 2486.8 |
| Larceny-Theft | 212 | 2332.7 |
| Burglary | 7 | 77 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 7 | 77 |
| Arson | 1 | 11 |
| Violent Crime | 24 | 264.1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 19 | 209.1 |
| Robbery | 3 | 33 |
| Murder | 1 | 11 |
| Rape | 1 | 11 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 5,435 | 36.8 | 3919 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 8,297 | 36.2 | 3061.3 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 7,836 | 12.8 | 2794.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 8,850 | 226 | 3175.1 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 9,088 | 264.1 | 2486.8 |
Travelers Rest Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Travelers Rest's 250 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 Travelers Rest in population. Their populations run from 7,795 to 10,309, against 9,088 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Travelers Rest sits at 264.1/100K violent (grade C); the South Carolina cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Travelers Rest reported 24 violent crimes and 226 property crimes, for a total of 250 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Travelers Rest's violent crime rate increased by 16.9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 21.7%.
The most common crime type in Travelers Rest is larceny-theft, accounting for 84.8% of all reported crimes (212 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Travelers Rest is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how Travelers Rest's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Travelers Rest, SC rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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