Crime in James Island, South Carolina
Major crime in James Island is 52% below the U.S. rate per resident: 47% lower for persons crimes and 53% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 4.6% 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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Every crime type in James Island is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in James 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 James Island
The middle half of James Island residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 33 and 61; the typical (median) resident's is 38. The citywide figure (48) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5074.4%
- 50–10016.6%
- 100–2009.0%
- 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 rose 4.6% 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.
James Island against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
1,540 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than James Island; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
James Island 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, Charleston (5 mi), is 2.1 times James Island's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in James Island
What are the most common crimes in James Island?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 31 a year), theft from vehicle (about 16 a year) and aggravated assault (about 16 a year). Compared with the U.S., simple assault stands out most: 21% below 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. James Island's figures add up its 7 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- James Island has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 52.4% 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: 10,918. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in James Island, South Carolina." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/sc/james-island
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Charleston5 mi102
- Mount Pleasant10 mi63
- Isle of Palms11 mi68
- North Charleston14 mi187
- Hanahan14 mi58
- Hollywood14 mi90
- Goose Creek20 mi79
- Ladson22 mi69