CrimeMetric

Crime in Simpsonville, South Carolina

Major crime in Simpsonville is 5% below the U.S. rate per resident: 21% lower for persons crimes and about the same for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 27.0% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
95
5% below the U.S. rate
15% below the South Carolina rate
down 27.0% in a year
Persons crimes
79
21% below the U.S. rate
33% below the South Carolina rate
down 2.5% in a year
Property crimes
98
about the U.S. rate
11% below the South Carolina rate
down 30.1% in a year
Social disorder
96
about the U.S. rate
24% below the South Carolina rate
down 15.0% 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

Shoplifting stands out most, at 1.6 times the U.S. rate

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

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

How crime varies across Simpsonville

The middle half of Simpsonville residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 28 and 189; the typical (median) resident's is 51. The citywide figure (95) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Simpsonville, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the bar's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Tap one to compare it. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5043.1%
  • 50–10027.8%
  • 100–20015.2%
  • 200–40013.9%
  • 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 6pm89
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am102
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm91
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am100
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 27.0% in a year; across South Carolina it fell 7.5%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-27.0%SC -7.5%-4.4%SC -8.1%
Persons crimes-2.5%SC -5.2%+10.8%SC +4.5%
Property crimes-30.1%SC -8.1%-7.1%SC -11.0%
Social disorder-15.0%SC -7.2%+6.0%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

Simpsonville against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents

355 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Simpsonville; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:

Jackson, MI31,011232
Fridley, MN30,959209
Shawnee, OK31,014160
Simpsonville, SC30,98595
Bell, CA30,96871
Easton, PA30,99368
Gurnee, IL31,04068

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

Nearby places

Simpsonville has a higher major-crime index than 4 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Fountain Inn (4 mi), is 28% below Simpsonville's rate.

Greenville10 mi160
Dunean11 mi130
Wade Hampton11 mi113
Gantt9 mi111
Simpsonville95
Piedmont12 mi94
Mauldin4 mi62

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

Questions about crime in Simpsonville

What are the most common crimes in Simpsonville?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 160 a year), other larceny (about 115 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 84 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 1.6 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. Simpsonville's figures add up its 11 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Simpsonville has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
  • 80.2% 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: 30,985. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100