Crime in Tega Cay, South Carolina
Major crime in Tega Cay is 61% below the U.S. rate per resident: 78% lower for persons crimes and 57% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.8% 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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Every crime type in Tega Cay is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Tega Cay 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
Neighborhoods in Tega Cay
Tega Cay is made up of 4 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 45; the middle half of residents live where it is between 31 and 52.
- 0–5055.9%
- 50–10044.1%
- 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.
Highest on weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 8.8% 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.
Tega Cay against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
1,764 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Tega Cay; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Tega Cay has a higher major-crime index than 1 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Fort Mill (5 mi), is 39% below Tega Cay's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Tega Cay
What are the most common crimes in Tega Cay?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are theft from vehicle (about 29 a year), other larceny (about 25 a year) and shoplifting (about 16 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol 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. Tega Cay's figures add up its 4 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Tega Cay has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 0.0% 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: 12,774. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Tega Cay, South Carolina." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/sc/tega-cay
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