County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
Colleton County, SC
Colleton County (38,604 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.
Colleton County, SC reported 420 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Colleton County, SC agencies reported 162 violent and 445 property offenses. That equals about 420 violent and 1153 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
162 violent offenses
420/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Colleton County, SC
Position in the state cohort
Colleton County sits mid-pack among comparable South Carolina counties
At 419.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Colleton County ranks 12 of 43 — above 31 of the 42 other South Carolina counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +69.4% 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 lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 518.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 419.6 in 2024 (-19.0%). The highest observed value was 518.1 in 2020 and the lowest 419.6 in 2024. 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 26.7% of the 607 Part I offenses reported in Colleton County for 2024, against a median of 21.1% across comparable South Carolina counties — a gap of 5.6 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
445
Burglary
89
Larceny-Theft
275
Motor Vehicle Theft
81
Arson
5
Violent Crime
162
Murder
5
Rape
7
Robbery
4
Aggravated Assault
146
Reporting Agency
South Carolina Law Enforcement Division: Colleton County County Sheriff's Office Summary Reporting (SRS)
Colleton County's crime figures on this page originate from South Carolina Law Enforcement Division: Colleton County County Sheriff's Office's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
This agency reports via the traditional Summary Reporting System (SRS): aggregate monthly offense counts rather than incident-level detail.
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.