Crime in Anderson, South Carolina
Major crime in Anderson is 1.7 times the U.S. rate per resident: 36% higher for persons crimes and 1.8 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 29.0% from a year earlier.
Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this
Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.
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Shoplifting stands out most, at 2.5 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Anderson for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Property crimes
Social disorder
How crime varies across Anderson
The middle half of Anderson residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 95 and 236; the typical (median) resident's is 145.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–10039.9%
- 100–20027.1%
- 200–40033.0%
- 400+0.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekend daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 29.0% in a year; across South Carolina it fell 7.5%
Change in expected crimes, with South Carolina as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.
Anderson against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
97 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Anderson; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Anderson has a higher major-crime index than 6 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Homeland Park (4 mi), is 1.5 times Anderson's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Anderson
What are the most common crimes in Anderson?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 294 a year), shoplifting (about 268 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 130 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 2.5 times the U.S. rate per resident.
How we calculated this
Each police agency's crimes, as reported to the FBI, are spread across the census block groups it serves using population, jobs, points of interest and, where available, local incident records. Anderson's figures add up its 24 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Anderson has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 71.0% of residents live in block groups whose estimate has high confidence (80% interval within about 5x).
- Rates are per resident, so places where many people work or visit but few live, such as downtowns, airports and stadiums, can read high.
- Disorderly conduct and trespassing are modeled, because the FBI records them only through arrests.
- Residents: 33,519. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Anderson, South Carolina." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/sc/anderson
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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- Pendleton11 mi126
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- Central16 mi47