Crime in Lake Wylie, South Carolina
Major crime in Lake Wylie is 58% below the U.S. rate per resident: 56% lower for persons crimes and 58% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 15.8% 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 Lake Wylie is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Lake Wylie 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 Lake Wylie
The middle half of Lake Wylie residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 24 and 62; the typical (median) resident's is 52.
- 0–5045.4%
- 50–10054.6%
- 100–2000.0%
- 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 at night
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 15.8% 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.
Lake Wylie against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
1,680 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Lake Wylie; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Lake Wylie has a higher major-crime index than 2 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Tega Cay (6 mi), is 8% below Lake Wylie's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Lake Wylie
What are the most common crimes in Lake Wylie?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 30 a year), theft from vehicle (about 30 a year) and aggravated assault (about 20 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 20% 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. Lake Wylie's figures add up its 6 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Lake Wylie has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 67.9% 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: 16,830. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Lake Wylie, South Carolina." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/sc/lake-wylie
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Tega Cay6 mi39
- Newport9 mi52
- Clover9 mi66
- Belmont, NC9 mi126
- Cramerton, NC9 mi94
- Pineville, NC10 mi315
- Fort Mill11 mi24
- Rock Hill11 mi169