Crime in Isle of Palms, South Carolina
Major crime in Isle of Palms is 32% below the U.S. rate per resident: 42% lower for persons crimes and 29% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.7% 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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Drugs and alcohol stands out most, at 8.7 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Isle of Palms 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 Isle of Palms
The middle half of Isle of Palms residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 41 and 124; the typical (median) resident's is 60.
- 0–5046.8%
- 50–10025.9%
- 100–20027.3%
- 200–4000.0%
- 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 7.7% 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.
Isle of Palms against U.S. places with 2,000 to 5,000 residents
712 of the 1,761 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Isle of Palms; the middle of the group is 58. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Isle of Palms has a higher major-crime index than 3 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Mount Pleasant (5 mi), is 7% below Isle of Palms's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Isle of Palms
What are the most common crimes in Isle of Palms?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 28 a year), theft from vehicle (about 7 a year) and aggravated assault (about 6 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 8.7 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. Isle of Palms's figures add up its 5 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Isle of Palms 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: 4,380. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Isle of Palms, South Carolina." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/sc/isle-of-palms
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Mount Pleasant5 mi63
- James Island11 mi48
- Charleston14 mi102
- Hanahan17 mi58
- North Charleston19 mi187
- Goose Creek22 mi79
- Hollywood25 mi90
- Ladson25 mi69