Crime in Greenville, South Carolina
Major crime in Greenville is 1.6 times the U.S. rate per resident: 1.7 times for persons crimes and 1.6 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 14.5% 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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Drugs and alcohol stands out most, at 3.1 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Greenville 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 Greenville
The middle half of Greenville residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 80 and 188; the typical (median) resident's is 113. The citywide figure (160) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5012.7%
- 50–10023.0%
- 100–20043.9%
- 200–40016.0%
- 400+4.4%
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 14.5% 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.
Greenville against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
81 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Greenville; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Greenville 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, Dunean (3 mi), is 18% below Greenville's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Greenville
What are the most common crimes in Greenville?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are theft from vehicle (about 522 a year), other larceny (about 402 a year) and shoplifting (about 371 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 3.1 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. Greenville's figures add up its 50 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Greenville's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 70.6% 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: 73,685. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Greenville, South Carolina." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/sc/greenville
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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