Crime in Denmark, South Carolina
Major crime in Denmark is 24% above the U.S. rate per resident: 40% higher for persons crimes and 20% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.2% 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 3.7 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Denmark 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 Denmark
Denmark is made up of 4 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 129; the middle half of residents live where it is between 70 and 160.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–10036.3%
- 100–20063.7%
- 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 8.2% 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.
Denmark against U.S. places with 2,000 to 5,000 residents
269 of the 1,761 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Denmark; the middle of the group is 58. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Denmark 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, Bamberg (7 mi), is 2.0 times Denmark's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Denmark
What are the most common crimes in Denmark?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 20 a year), shoplifting (about 13 a year) and aggravated assault (about 11 a year). Compared with the U.S., murder stands out most: 3.7 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. Denmark's figures add up its 4 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Denmark 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: 3,204. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Denmark, South Carolina." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/sc/denmark
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Bamberg7 mi253
- Barnwell14 mi158
- Williston18 mi171
- Orangeburg21 mi272
- Brookdale23 mi204
- Aiken38 mi191
- Walterboro38 mi201
- Estill39 mi186