County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
Clarendon County, SC
Clarendon County (31,144 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.
Clarendon County, SC reported 472 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Clarendon County, SC agencies reported 147 violent and 450 property offenses. That equals about 472 violent and 1445 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
147 violent offenses
472/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Clarendon County, SC
Position in the state cohort
Clarendon County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable South Carolina counties
At 472.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Clarendon County ranks 9 of 43 — above 34 of the 42 other South Carolina counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +90.6% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 362.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 472.0 in 2024 (+30.1%). The highest observed value was 558.7 in 2021 and the lowest 362.8 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 24.6% of the 597 Part I offenses reported in Clarendon County for 2024, against a median of 21.1% across comparable South Carolina counties — a gap of 3.5 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.
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
450
Burglary
90
Larceny-Theft
322
Motor Vehicle Theft
38
Arson
4
Violent Crime
147
Murder
3
Rape
16
Robbery
10
Aggravated Assault
118
Reporting Agency
Clarendon County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Clarendon County's crime figures on this page originate from Clarendon 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
A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the South Carolina counties closest to Clarendon County in population. Their populations run from 28,292 to 32,294, against 31,144 here. Or launch the
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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.