CrimeMetric

Crime in Pendleton, South Carolina

Major crime in Pendleton is 26% above the U.S. rate per resident: 9% higher for persons crimes and 29% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are about flat from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
126
26% above the U.S. rate
12% above the South Carolina rate
about flat in a year
Persons crimes
109
9% above the U.S. rate
8% below the South Carolina rate
up 9.5% in a year
Property crimes
129
29% above the U.S. rate
17% above the South Carolina rate
down 2.2% in a year
Social disorder
113
13% above the U.S. rate
11% below the South Carolina rate
up 6.2% 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

Disorderly conduct, trespassing and burglary stand out most, at about 1.7 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Pendleton 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 Pendleton

Pendleton is made up of 3 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 151; the middle half of residents live where it is between 76 and 168.

Map of Pendleton, 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.
  • 0–500.0%
  • 50–10040.2%
  • 100–20059.8%
  • 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 on weeknights

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

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm123
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am142
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm98
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am124
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 0.5% in a year; across South Carolina it fell 7.5%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-0.5%SC -7.5%-9.2%SC -8.1%
Persons crimes+9.5%SC -5.2%+5.3%SC +4.5%
Property crimes-2.2%SC -8.1%-11.9%SC -11.0%
Social disorder+6.2%SC -7.2%-2.9%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

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

368 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Pendleton; 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

Pendleton has a higher major-crime index than 5 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Clemson (4 mi), is 38% below Pendleton's rate.

Anderson11 mi169
Seneca10 mi166
Pendleton126
Easley16 mi86
Clemson4 mi78
Liberty11 mi66
Central5 mi47

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

Questions about crime in Pendleton

What are the most common crimes in Pendleton?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 35 a year), theft from vehicle (about 20 a year) and shoplifting (about 18 a year). Compared with the U.S., disorderly conduct stands out most: 1.7 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. Pendleton's figures add up its 3 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Pendleton has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
  • 33.3% 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: 5,102. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100