County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
Orangeburg County, SC
At 84,223 residents, Orangeburg 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).
Orangeburg County, SC reported 848 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Orangeburg County, SC agencies reported 714 violent and 1,969 property offenses. That equals about 848 violent and 2338 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
714 violent offenses
848/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Orangeburg County, SC
Position in the state cohort
Orangeburg County reported the highest violent-crime rate among comparable South Carolina counties
At 847.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Orangeburg County ranks 1 of 43 — above 42 of the 42 other South Carolina counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +242.2% 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 1037.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 847.7 in 2024 (-18.3%). The highest observed value was 1084.0 in 2023 and the lowest 847.7 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 26.6% of the 2,683 Part I offenses reported in Orangeburg County for 2024, against a median of 21.1% across comparable South Carolina counties — a gap of 5.5 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.
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
1,969
Burglary
347
Larceny-Theft
1,357
Motor Vehicle Theft
265
Arson
7
Violent Crime
714
Murder
14
Rape
14
Robbery
37
Aggravated Assault
649
Reporting Agency
Orangeburg County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Orangeburg County's crime figures on this page originate from Orangeburg 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.