Decision-support ranking comparing South Carolina cities by current violent crime per 1,000 using the currently published coarse crime context, then routing readers into each city brief for tract context and caveats.
Ranked rows are precomputed and served as static HTML from R2.
| # | Place | Metric | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Myrtle Beach Violent Crime has declined 14% since 2021. |
10.6 / 1k | → |
| 2 | Spartanburg Violent Crime has declined 9% since 2021. |
9.8 / 1k | → |
| 3 | Orangeburg Violent Crime has declined 29% since 2021. |
9.8 / 1k | → |
| 4 | Lancaster Violent Crime moved up by 7.2 / 1k from 2.3 / 1k in 2022 to 9.5 / 1k in 2024. The earlier baseline was too small for a reliable headline percentage. |
9.5 / 1k | → |
| 5 | North Charleston Violent Crime has declined 17% since 2021. |
7.6 / 1k | → |
| 6 | Sumter Violent Crime has increased 8% since 2021. |
6.9 / 1k | → |
| 7 | Columbia Violent Crime has been relatively flat over the tracked period. |
6.8 / 1k | → |
| 8 | West Columbia Violent Crime has declined 7% since 2021. |
6.6 / 1k | → |
| 9 | Cayce Violent Crime has declined 22% since 2021. |
6.2 / 1k | → |
| 10 | York Violent Crime has declined 25% since 2021. |
6.0 / 1k | → |
| 11 | Beaufort Violent Crime has increased 93% since 2021. |
5.8 / 1k | → |
| 12 | Florence Violent Crime has declined 42% since 2021. |
5.6 / 1k | → |
| 13 | Springdale Violent Crime has increased 38% since 2021. |
5.5 / 1k | → |
| 14 | Greenville Violent Crime has declined 10% since 2021. |
5.2 / 1k | → |
| 15 | Anderson Violent Crime has declined 5% since 2021. |
5.2 / 1k | → |
| 16 | Aiken Violent Crime has declined 25% since 2021. |
4.7 / 1k | → |
| 17 | Seneca Violent Crime has declined 4% since 2021. |
4.6 / 1k | → |
| 18 | Newberry Violent Crime has declined 26% since 2021. |
4.3 / 1k | → |
| 19 | Rock Hill Violent Crime has declined 16% since 2021. |
3.8 / 1k | → |
| 20 | Greenwood Violent Crime has declined 58% since 2021. |
3.7 / 1k | → |
| 21 | Duncan Violent Crime has increased 67% since 2021. |
3.5 / 1k | → |
| 22 | North Myrtle Beach Violent Crime has declined 34% since 2021. |
3.5 / 1k | → |
| 23 | Woodruff Violent Crime has declined 21% since 2022. |
3.4 / 1k | → |
| 24 | Conway Violent Crime has declined 25% since 2021. |
3.3 / 1k | → |
| 25 | Charleston Violent Crime has declined 22% since 2021. |
3.1 / 1k | → |
This page is useful for a current statewide pressure screen. It compares supported South Carolina cities by aggregate violent-crime rate before you open the deeper city briefs. Outside Colorado, this remains statewide fallback context rather than local incident-feed depth.
A current city rate does not tell you whether conditions are improving, how concentrated the pressure is, or which neighborhoods are driving it. Open the city brief and neighborhood pages next.