Crime in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Major crime in Myrtle Beach is 3.1 times the U.S. rate per resident: 2.9 times for persons crimes and 3.1 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 20.2% 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 6.5 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Myrtle Beach 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 Myrtle Beach
The middle half of Myrtle Beach residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 60 and 462; the typical (median) resident's is 180. The citywide figure (310) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–509.3%
- 50–10030.2%
- 100–20015.8%
- 200–40010.8%
- 400+34.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on Friday and Saturday nights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 20.2% 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.
Myrtle Beach against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
9 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Myrtle Beach; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Myrtle Beach has a higher major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Carolina Forest (4 mi), is 89% below Myrtle Beach's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Myrtle Beach
What are the most common crimes in Myrtle Beach?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 637 a year), shoplifting (about 599 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 314 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 6.5 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. Myrtle Beach's figures add up its 22 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Myrtle Beach's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 79.8% 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: 41,294. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/sc/myrtle-beach
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Carolina Forest4 mi35
- Forestbrook5 mi66
- Socastee7 mi72
- Red Hill9 mi80
- Surfside Beach9 mi87
- Garden City10 mi97
- Conway12 mi135
- North Myrtle Beach14 mi204