County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
Darlington County, SC
At 62,905 residents, Darlington County is a large county in South Carolina. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Darlington County, SC reported 528 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Darlington County, SC agencies reported 332 violent and 1,141 property offenses. That equals about 528 violent and 1814 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
332 violent offenses
528/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Darlington County, SC
Position in the state cohort
Darlington County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable South Carolina counties
At 527.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Darlington County ranks 6 of 43 — above 37 of the 42 other South Carolina counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +113.1% 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.
2021–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 742.4 per 100,000 in 2021 to 527.8 in 2024 (-28.9%). The highest observed value was 742.4 in 2021 and the lowest 527.8 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 55.7% of reported property offenses in Darlington County, against a cohort median of 66.4%. The remainder is burglary (321) and motor vehicle theft (184). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
On a 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 · large county
Category
Count
Property Crime
1,141
Burglary
321
Larceny-Theft
636
Motor Vehicle Theft
184
Arson
10
Violent Crime
332
Murder
8
Rape
24
Robbery
15
Aggravated Assault
285
Reporting Agency
Darlington County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Darlington County's crime figures on this page originate from Darlington 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.