County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
At 187,117 residents, Beaufort County is a large county in South Carolina. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Data updated 2026-09-05
Beaufort County, SC reported 231 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Beaufort County, SC agencies reported 433 violent and 1,659 property offenses. That equals about 231 violent and 887 property crimes per 100,000 using a verified Census population join. Table 10 coverage is a voluntary subset of U.S. counties.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 77.3% of reported property offenses in Beaufort County, against a cohort median of 66.1%. The remainder is burglary (222) and motor vehicle theft (155). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 243.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 231.4 in 2024 (-4.8%). The highest observed value was 315.3 in 2022 and the lowest 231.4 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
At 231.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Beaufort County ranks 23 of 43 — above 20 of the 42 other South Carolina counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -14.4% against the cohort median of 270.4. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
On a large county row, county figures aggregate every participating agency inside the county. Participation is voluntary. Per-100,000 rates use a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census county population, never a Table 10 field; unmatched counties stay count-only. A large county line encloses very different communities.
| Category | Count |
|---|---|
| Property Crime | 1,659 |
| Burglary | 222 |
| Larceny-Theft | 1,282 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 155 |
| Arson | 10 |
| Violent Crime | 433 |
| Murder | 14 |
| Rape | 38 |
| Robbery | 21 |
| Aggravated Assault | 360 |
Beaufort County's crime figures on this page originate from Beaufort County Sheriff's Office's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
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.
A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the South Carolina counties closest to Beaufort County in population. Their populations run from 137,059 to 229,861, against 187,117 here. Or launch the side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two jurisdictions directly.
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Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Crime in the United States (CIUS) Table 10.
FBI Table 10 supplies county offense counts but no resident population. Where this page shows a per-100,000 rate, the denominator is a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census Bureau county population; unmatched county rows remain count-only. Statewide comparisons draw on the state UCR program. Verify with FBI.gov UCR and Census.gov QuickFacts.
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