CrimeMetric

Crime in Newport, South Carolina

Major crime in Newport is 48% below the U.S. rate per resident: 46% lower for persons crimes and 49% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 10.7% from a year earlier.

Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this

Major crime
52
48% below the U.S. rate
54% below the South Carolina rate
down 10.7% in a year
Persons crimes
54
46% below the U.S. rate
54% below the South Carolina rate
up 3.3% in a year
Property crimes
51
49% below the U.S. rate
54% below the South Carolina rate
down 13.5% in a year
Social disorder
82
18% below the U.S. rate
35% below the South Carolina rate
down 6.3% in a year

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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Crime by type

Every crime type in Newport is near or below the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Newport for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

Neighborhoods in Newport

Newport is made up of 3 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 55; the middle half of residents live where it is between 40 and 59.

Map of Newport, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the key's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5032.2%
  • 50–10067.8%
  • 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.

When it happens

Highest at night

Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm48
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am55
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm49
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am57
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 10.7% in a year; across South Carolina it fell 7.5%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-10.7%SC -7.5%-7.9%SC -8.1%
Persons crimes+3.3%SC -5.2%+7.0%SC +4.5%
Property crimes-13.5%SC -8.1%-11.3%SC -11.0%
Social disorder-6.3%SC -7.2%-0.5%SC -1.7%

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.

Similar-size places

Newport against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents

1,332 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Newport; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.

Nearby places

Newport 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, Rock Hill (5 mi), is 3.3 times Newport's rate.

Rock Hill5 mi169
York8 mi144
Clover11 mi66
Newport52
Tega Cay7 mi39
Fort Mill10 mi24

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.

Questions about crime in Newport

What are the most common crimes in Newport?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 16 a year), theft from vehicle (about 12 a year) and aggravated assault (about 9 a year). Compared with the U.S., simple assault stands out most: about 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. Newport's figures add up its 3 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Newport has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
  • 37.0% 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: 5,840. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Newport, South Carolina." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/sc/newport

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100