County crime profile · 2024 · very large county · property-led
Charleston County, SC
At 408,235 residents, Charleston County is a very large county in South Carolina. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Charleston County, SC reported 40 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Charleston County, SC agencies reported 164 violent and 745 property offenses. That equals about 40 violent and 183 property crimes per 100,000 using a verified Census population join. Table 10 coverage is a voluntary subset of U.S. counties.
2024 UCR year
164 violent offenses
40/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Charleston County, SC
Position in the state cohort
Charleston County reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable South Carolina counties
At 40.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Charleston County ranks 42 of 43 — above 1 of the 42 other South Carolina counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -85.1% 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.
2021–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 61.0 per 100,000 in 2021 to 40.2 in 2024 (-34.1%). The highest observed value was 63.2 in 2022 and the lowest 40.2 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 18.0% of the 909 Part I offenses reported in Charleston 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 74.2% of reported property offenses in Charleston County, against a cohort median of 66.1%. The remainder is burglary (83) and motor vehicle theft (109). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
On a very 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.
Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · very large county
Category
Count
Property Crime
745
Burglary
83
Larceny-Theft
553
Motor Vehicle Theft
109
Arson
4
Violent Crime
164
Murder
5
Rape
7
Robbery
26
Aggravated Assault
126
Reporting Agency
Charleston County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Charleston County's crime figures on this page originate from Charleston 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.
Similar-Size Counties in South Carolina
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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.
County Table 10 totals are voluntary agency filings: incomplete coverage is not a county crime measure, and a countywide figure is not a neighbourhood verdict.