Crime in East Gaffney, South Carolina
Major crime in East Gaffney is 42% above the U.S. rate per resident: 46% higher for persons crimes and 41% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 11.0% 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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Drugs and alcohol stands out most, at 3.2 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in East Gaffney 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 East Gaffney
East Gaffney is made up of 3 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 110; the middle half of residents live where it is between 105 and 110.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–1000.0%
- 100–20083.2%
- 200–40016.8%
- 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 Friday and Saturday nights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 11.0% 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.
East Gaffney against U.S. places with 2,000 to 5,000 residents
207 of the 1,761 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than East Gaffney; the middle of the group is 58. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
East Gaffney has a higher major-crime index than 5 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Gaffney (2 mi), is 7% above East Gaffney's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in East Gaffney
What are the most common crimes in East Gaffney?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 23 a year), burglary (about 10 a year) and aggravated assault (about 9 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 3.2 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. East Gaffney's figures add up its 3 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- East Gaffney 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: 2,349. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in East Gaffney, South Carolina." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/sc/east-gaffney
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