Crime in Lexington, South Carolina
Major crime in Lexington is 6% above the U.S. rate per resident: 38% lower for persons crimes and 16% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 15.4% 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 2.2 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Lexington 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 Lexington
The middle half of Lexington residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 45 and 130; the typical (median) resident's is 121.
- 0–5025.1%
- 50–10017.8%
- 100–20047.2%
- 200–4009.9%
- 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 weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime rose 15.4% 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.
Lexington against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
280 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Lexington; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Lexington 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, Red Bank (4 mi), is 33% above Lexington's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Lexington
What are the most common crimes in Lexington?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 180 a year), shoplifting (about 152 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 93 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 2.2 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. Lexington's figures add up its 13 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Lexington has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 57.1% 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: 29,562. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Lexington, South Carolina." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/sc/lexington
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Red Bank4 mi141
- Oak Grove5 mi107
- Seven Oaks6 mi227
- White Knoll7 mi54
- Irmo8 mi85
- St. Andrews8 mi253
- West Columbia8 mi237
- Cayce9 mi174