Crime in Carolina Forest, South Carolina
Major crime in Carolina Forest is 65% below the U.S. rate per resident: 71% lower for persons crimes and 64% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 11.9% 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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Every crime type in Carolina Forest is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Carolina Forest 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 Carolina Forest
The middle half of Carolina Forest residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 21 and 44; the typical (median) resident's is 31.
- 0–5084.9%
- 50–10015.1%
- 100–2000.0%
- 200–4000.0%
- 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 weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 11.9% 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.
Carolina Forest against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
867 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Carolina Forest; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Carolina Forest has a lower major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Myrtle Beach (4 mi), is 8.9 times Carolina Forest's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Carolina Forest
What are the most common crimes in Carolina Forest?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 54 a year), theft from vehicle (about 28 a year) and shoplifting (about 22 a year). Compared with the U.S., simple assault stands out most: 40% below 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. Carolina Forest's figures add up its 6 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Carolina Forest has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 77.6% 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: 26,762. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Carolina Forest, South Carolina." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/sc/carolina-forest
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Myrtle Beach4 mi310
- Forestbrook4 mi66
- Red Hill5 mi80
- Socastee7 mi72
- Conway9 mi135
- Surfside Beach11 mi87
- Garden City13 mi97
- North Myrtle Beach14 mi204