County crime profile · 2024 · very large county · property-led

Spartanburg County, SC

At 327,997 residents, Spartanburg County is a very large county in South Carolina. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).

Data updated 2026-09-05

2,976
Property offenses
1,153
Violent offenses
4,129
Total · 2024

Spartanburg County, SC reported 352 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024

According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Spartanburg County, SC agencies reported 1,153 violent and 2,976 property offenses. That equals about 352 violent and 907 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
  • 1,153 violent offenses
  • 352/100K violent rate

What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Spartanburg County, SC

Position in the state cohort

Spartanburg County sits mid-pack among comparable South Carolina counties

At 351.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Spartanburg County ranks 16 of 43 — above 27 of the 42 other South Carolina counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +41.9% 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.

Offense mix

Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix

Violent offenses are 27.9% of the 4,129 Part I offenses reported in Spartanburg County for 2024, against a median of 21.1% across comparable South Carolina counties — a gap of 6.8 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.

2020–2024 direction

The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher

Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 304.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 351.5 in 2024 (+15.6%). The highest observed value was 379.3 in 2023 and the lowest 304.0 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.

On a very 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 · very large county

Category Count
Property Crime 2,976
Burglary 572
Larceny-Theft 2,074
Motor Vehicle Theft 330
Arson 4
Violent Crime 1,153
Murder 18
Rape 81
Robbery 24
Aggravated Assault 1,030

Reporting Agency

Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating

Spartanburg County's crime figures on this page originate from Spartanburg 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 Spartanburg County in population. Their populations run from 282,090 to 416,147, against 327,997 here. Or launch the side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two jurisdictions directly.

Nationwide peers for Spartanburg County

Similar violent rate (~352/100K)

Similar property rate (~907/100K)

ZIP Codes in Spartanburg County

State atlas: South Carolina · Compare · Rankings

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.

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