Crime in Garden City, South Carolina
Major crime in Garden City is about the U.S. rate per resident: 21% lower for persons crimes and about the same for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 11.7% 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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Trespassing stands out most, at 1.9 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Garden City 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 Garden City
The middle half of Garden City residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 58 and 118; the typical (median) resident's is 89.
- 0–5019.6%
- 50–10048.5%
- 100–20022.2%
- 200–4009.7%
- 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 weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 11.7% 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.
Garden City against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
724 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Garden City; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Garden City has a higher major-crime index than 7 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Surfside Beach (2 mi), is 10% below Garden City's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Garden City
What are the most common crimes in Garden City?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 96 a year), theft from vehicle (about 36 a year) and shoplifting (about 34 a year). Compared with the U.S., trespassing stands out most: 1.9 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. Garden City's figures add up its 9 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Garden City has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 57.4% 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: 15,401. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Garden City, South Carolina." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/sc/garden-city
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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