County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
Sumter County, SC
At 105,556 residents, Sumter 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).
Sumter County, SC reported 369 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Sumter County, SC agencies reported 389 violent and 1,204 property offenses. That equals about 369 violent and 1141 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
389 violent offenses
369/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Sumter County, SC
Position in the state cohort
Sumter County sits mid-pack among comparable South Carolina counties
At 368.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Sumter County ranks 14 of 43 — above 29 of the 42 other South Carolina counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +48.8% 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 439.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 368.5 in 2024 (-16.2%). The highest observed value was 486.0 in 2022 and the lowest 368.5 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 24.4% of the 1,593 Part I offenses reported in Sumter County for 2024, against a median of 21.1% across comparable South Carolina counties — a gap of 3.3 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
1,204
Burglary
274
Larceny-Theft
726
Motor Vehicle Theft
204
Arson
10
Violent Crime
389
Murder
6
Rape
17
Robbery
23
Aggravated Assault
343
Reporting Agency
Sumter County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Sumter County's crime figures on this page originate from Sumter 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 Sumter County in population. Their populations run from 78,607 to 137,059, against 105,556 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.