Crime in Forest Acres, South Carolina
Major crime in Forest Acres is 1.5 times the U.S. rate per resident: 6% lower for persons crimes and 1.6 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 4.5% 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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Shoplifting stands out most, at 2.2 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Forest Acres 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 Forest Acres
The middle half of Forest Acres residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 120 and 185; the typical (median) resident's is 164.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–10015.7%
- 100–20073.2%
- 200–40011.1%
- 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 weekend daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 4.5% 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.
Forest Acres against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
255 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Forest Acres; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Forest Acres 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, Columbia (1 mi), is 42% above Forest Acres's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Forest Acres
What are the most common crimes in Forest Acres?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 70 a year), shoplifting (about 64 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 45 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 2.2 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. Forest Acres's figures add up its 7 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Forest Acres has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 55.1% 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: 9,297. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Forest Acres, South Carolina." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/sc/forest-acres
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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