CrimeMetric

Crime in Belton, South Carolina

Major crime in Belton is 12% above the U.S. rate per resident: 17% higher for persons crimes and 11% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 3.9% from a year earlier.

Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this

Major crime
112
12% above the U.S. rate
about the South Carolina rate
down 3.9% in a year
Persons crimes
117
17% above the U.S. rate
about the South Carolina rate
up 7.5% in a year
Property crimes
111
11% above the U.S. rate
about the South Carolina rate
down 6.2% in a year
Social disorder
150
1.5 times the U.S. rate
19% above the South Carolina rate
up 1.0% in a year

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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Crime by type

Simple assault stands out most, at 1.7 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Belton for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

How crime varies across Belton

The middle half of Belton residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 57 and 130; the typical (median) resident's is 115.

Map of Belton, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the bar's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–500.0%
  • 50–10048.8%
  • 100–20042.2%
  • 200–4009.0%
  • 400+0.0%

Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.

When it happens

Highest in the daytime

Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm116
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am106
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm115
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am112
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 3.9% in a year; across South Carolina it fell 7.5%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-3.9%SC -7.5%-8.7%SC -8.1%
Persons crimes+7.5%SC -5.2%+5.1%SC +4.5%
Property crimes-6.2%SC -8.1%-11.9%SC -11.0%
Social disorder+1.0%SC -7.2%-1.7%SC -1.7%

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.

Similar-size places

Belton against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents

449 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Belton; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.

Nearby places

Belton has a higher major-crime index than 2 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Williamston (7 mi), is 1.5 times Belton's rate.

Anderson9 mi169
Honea Path7 mi156
Powdersville18 mi146
Pendleton18 mi126
Belton112
Centerville13 mi108
Piedmont13 mi94

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.

Questions about crime in Belton

What are the most common crimes in Belton?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 40 a year), aggravated assault (about 18 a year) and burglary (about 15 a year). Compared with the U.S., simple assault stands out most: 1.7 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. Belton's figures add up its 5 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Belton has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
  • 0.0% 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: 5,747. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Belton, South Carolina." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/sc/belton

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100