County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
At 229,861 residents, Berkeley 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
Berkeley County, SC reported 215 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Berkeley County, SC agencies reported 493 violent and 2,236 property offenses. That equals about 215 violent and 973 property crimes per 100,000 using a verified Census population join. Table 10 coverage is a voluntary subset of U.S. counties.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 18.1% of the 2,729 Part I offenses reported in Berkeley County for 2024, against a median of 21.9% across comparable South Carolina counties — a gap of 3.8 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 214.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Berkeley County ranks 25 of 43 — above 18 of the 42 other South Carolina counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -20.7% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 199.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 214.5 in 2024 (+7.4%). The highest observed value was 235.8 in 2023 and the lowest 191.0 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
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 | 2,236 |
| Burglary | 458 |
| Larceny-Theft | 1,445 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 333 |
| Arson | 19 |
| Violent Crime | 493 |
| Murder | 10 |
| Rape | 34 |
| Robbery | 33 |
| Aggravated Assault | 416 |
Berkeley County's crime figures on this page originate from Berkeley 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 Berkeley County in population. Their populations run from 168,808 to 293,991, against 229,861 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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