Crime in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
Major crime in Hilton Head Island is 31% below the U.S. rate per resident: 28% lower for persons crimes and 32% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 18.1% 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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Murder stands out most, at 1.5 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Hilton Head Island 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 Hilton Head Island
The middle half of Hilton Head Island residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 25 and 103; the typical (median) resident's is 50. The citywide figure (69) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5051.9%
- 50–10022.1%
- 100–20021.9%
- 200–4003.6%
- 400+0.5%
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 18.1% 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.
Hilton Head Island against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
540 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Hilton Head Island; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Hilton Head Island has a higher major-crime index than 4 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Bluffton (11 mi), is 55% below Hilton Head Island's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Hilton Head Island
What are the most common crimes in Hilton Head Island?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 115 a year), theft from vehicle (about 87 a year) and shoplifting (about 78 a year). Compared with the U.S., murder stands out most: 1.5 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. Hilton Head Island's figures add up its 33 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Hilton Head Island has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 66.1% 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: 38,773. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/sc/hilton-head-island
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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