Crime in Central, South Carolina
Major crime in Central is 54% below the U.S. rate per resident: 68% lower for persons crimes and 50% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 10.6% 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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Murder stands out most, at 3.3 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Central 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
Neighborhoods in Central
Central is made up of 4 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 30; the middle half of residents live where it is between 25 and 74.
- 0–5064.1%
- 50–10035.9%
- 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 at night
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 10.6% 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.
Central against U.S. places with 2,000 to 5,000 residents
1,097 of the 1,761 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Central; the middle of the group is 58. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Central 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, Clemson (3 mi), is 1.7 times Central's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Central
What are the most common crimes in Central?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 11 a year), shoplifting (about 7 a year) and burglary (about 4 a year). Compared with the U.S., murder stands out most: 3.3 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. Central's figures add up its 4 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Central 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: 4,074. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Central, South Carolina." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/sc/central
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Clemson3 mi78
- Pendleton5 mi126
- Liberty7 mi66
- Seneca10 mi166
- Easley13 mi86
- Centerville14 mi108
- Anderson16 mi169
- Powdersville16 mi146