CrimeMetric

Crime in Dentsville, South Carolina

Major crime in Dentsville is 2.8 times the U.S. rate per resident: 2.9 times for persons crimes and 2.8 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 14.7% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
280
2.8 times the U.S. rate
2.5 times the South Carolina rate
up 14.7% in a year
Persons crimes
288
2.9 times the U.S. rate
2.4 times the South Carolina rate
down 5.2% in a year
Property crimes
279
2.8 times the U.S. rate
2.5 times the South Carolina rate
up 20.5% in a year
Social disorder
164
1.6 times the U.S. rate
30% above the South Carolina rate
down 7.4% 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

Murder and theft from vehicle stand out most, at about 4.0 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Dentsville 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 Dentsville

The middle half of Dentsville residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 172 and 352; the typical (median) resident's is 221. The citywide figure (280) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Dentsville, 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%
  • 50–1000.0%
  • 100–20033.5%
  • 200–40043.7%
  • 400+22.9%

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

When it happens

Highest on Friday and Saturday nights

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

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm265
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am289
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm272
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am314
Trend and outlook

Major crime rose 14.7% in a year; across South Carolina it fell 7.5%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime+14.7%SC -7.5%-10.9%SC -8.1%
Persons crimes-5.2%SC -5.2%-0.4%SC +4.5%
Property crimes+20.5%SC -8.1%-13.3%SC -11.0%
Social disorder-7.4%SC -7.2%-5.6%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

Dentsville against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents

31 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Dentsville; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:

Dentsville, SC14,799280
Zebulon, NC14,792111
Palmetto, FL14,791109
Brainerd, MN14,818100
Kenmore, NY14,78784
Moberly, MO14,78467

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

Nearby places

Dentsville has a higher major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Woodfield (2 mi), is 43% below Dentsville's rate.

Dentsville280
Seven Oaks11 mi227
Columbia5 mi214
Cayce11 mi174
Woodfield2 mi159

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

Questions about crime in Dentsville

What are the most common crimes in Dentsville?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 190 a year), theft from vehicle (about 156 a year) and aggravated assault (about 109 a year). Compared with the U.S., murder stands out most: 4.0 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. Dentsville's figures add up its 10 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Dentsville has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
  • 100.0% 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: 14,799. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100