County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
Dorchester County, SC
At 161,540 residents, Dorchester 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).
Dorchester County, SC reported 160 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Dorchester County, SC agencies reported 259 violent and 1,212 property offenses. That equals about 160 violent and 750 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
259 violent offenses
160/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Dorchester County, SC
Position in the state cohort
Dorchester County reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable South Carolina counties
At 160.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Dorchester County ranks 34 of 43 — above 9 of the 42 other South Carolina counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -40.7% against the cohort median of 270.4. 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 198.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 160.3 in 2024 (-19.3%). The highest observed value was 198.7 in 2020 and the lowest 124.4 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 17.6% of the 1,471 Part I offenses reported in Dorchester County for 2024, against a median of 21.9% across comparable South Carolina counties — a gap of 4.2 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.
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
1,212
Burglary
188
Larceny-Theft
860
Motor Vehicle Theft
164
Arson
4
Violent Crime
259
Murder
3
Rape
23
Robbery
18
Aggravated Assault
215
Reporting Agency
Dorchester County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Dorchester County's crime figures on this page originate from Dorchester 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 Dorchester County in population. Their populations run from 131,404 to 203,718, against 161,540 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.