County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
Chester County (32,294 people) sits in the mid-size county band in South Carolina. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Chester County, SC reported 282 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Chester County, SC agencies reported 91 violent and 274 property offenses. That equals about 282 violent and 849 property crimes per 100,000 using a verified Census population join. Table 10 coverage is a voluntary subset of U.S. counties.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 387.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 281.8 in 2024 (-27.2%). The highest observed value was 387.1 in 2020 and the lowest 281.8 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 24.9% of the 365 Part I offenses reported in Chester County for 2024, against a median of 21.1% 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 281.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Chester County ranks 19 of 43 — above 24 of the 42 other South Carolina counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +13.8% against the cohort median of 247.7. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Mid-size county rows still aggregate voluntary UCR submissions. Per-100,000 rates need a matched 2020 Census population; unmatched stay count-only. County-wide totals rarely describe any single town inside the line.
| Category | Count |
|---|---|
| Property Crime | 274 |
| Burglary | 72 |
| Larceny-Theft | 175 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 27 |
| Arson | 3 |
| Violent Crime | 91 |
| Murder | 4 |
| Rape | 7 |
| Robbery | 9 |
| Aggravated Assault | 71 |
Chester County's crime figures on this page originate from Chester 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 Chester County in population. Their populations run from 28,292 to 31,144, against 32,294 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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Put this to use
Use the Chester County, SC FBI UCR county record to open cities inside the county, compare the state file, or look up another place.
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.
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