County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
Chesterfield County, SC
Chesterfield County (43,273 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.
Chesterfield County, SC reported 495 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Chesterfield County, SC agencies reported 214 violent and 614 property offenses. That equals about 495 violent and 1419 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
214 violent offenses
495/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Chesterfield County, SC
Position in the state cohort
Chesterfield County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable South Carolina counties
At 494.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Chesterfield County ranks 8 of 43 — above 35 of the 42 other South Carolina counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +99.7% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 25.8% of the 828 Part I offenses reported in Chesterfield County for 2024, against a median of 21.1% across comparable South Carolina counties — a gap of 4.7 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.
2022–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 3 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 466.8 per 100,000 in 2022 to 494.5 in 2024 (+5.9%). The highest observed value was 494.5 in 2024 and the lowest 466.8 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
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.
Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · mid-size county
Category
Count
Property Crime
614
Burglary
142
Larceny-Theft
399
Motor Vehicle Theft
73
Arson
6
Violent Crime
214
Murder
2
Rape
10
Robbery
12
Aggravated Assault
190
Reporting Agency
Chesterfield County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Chesterfield County's crime figures on this page originate from Chesterfield 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.