Table 10

South Carolina
Offenses Known to Law Enforcement
by State by Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Counties, 2005
[The data shown in this table do not reflect county totals but are the number of offenses reported by the sheriff's office or county police department.]

Metropolitan/Nonmetropolitan	County	Violent crime	Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter	Forcible rape	Robbery	Aggravated assault	Property crime	Burglary	Larceny-theft	Motor vehicle theft	Arson¹
Metropolitan Counties	Aiken	327	7	53	59	208	2,646	778	1,540	328	4
	Anderson	813	13	51	114	635	6,387	1,607	4,169	611	31
	Berkeley	635	8	55	92	480	3,256	1,018	1,763	475	25
	Calhoun	51	0	3	2	46	243	61	139	43	1
	Charleston	865	6	39	98	722	3,013	817	1,756	440	9
	Darlington	819	3	30	41	745	2,240	770	1,250	220	19
	Edgefield	34	0	1	2	31	343	90	224	29	2
	Fairfield	217	2	7	12	196	559	222	293	44	6
	Florence	612	8	27	112	465	3,175	937	1,976	262	8
	Greenville	2,303	24	136	413	1,730	11,179	3,102	6,928	1,149	49
	Horry	1	0	0	0	1	39	1	38	0	0
	Horry County Police Department	1,114	20	51	158	885	6,848	1,582	4,448	818	19
	Kershaw	189	0	14	20	155	1,070	265	691	114	2
	Laurens	306	2	22	18	264	1,561	516	865	180	5
	Lexington	565	8	45	104	408	4,084	1,071	2,570	443	4
	Pickens	233	2	17	8	206	2,008	623	1,226	159	11
	Richland	1,668	19	103	275	1,271	7,869	1,657	5,452	760	33
	Saluda	30	0	2	1	27	145	32	104	9	1
	Spartanburg	905	16	48	127	714	6,668	1,628	4,479	561	31
	Sumter	407	5	17	54	331	2,591	1,091	1,296	204	39
	York	670	3	32	63	572	3,088	747	2,068	273	16
Nonmetropolitan Counties	Abbeville	54	0	4	3	47	286	83	198	5	3
	Bamberg	69	1	5	4	59	199	71	95	33	3
	Barnwell	115	1	3	5	106	318	80	217	21	5
	Beaufort	650	5	31	149	465	4,135	1,066	2,778	291	19
	Cherokee	247	3	25	17	202	1,580	390	1,069	121	9
	Chester	202	2	9	11	180	850	184	617	49	7
	Chesterfield	133	2	11	8	112	686	237	378	71	10
	Clarendon	243	2	7	17	217	798	231	464	103	2
	Colleton	253	6	14	26	207	1,019	224	668	127	18
	Dillon	190	5	5	27	153	906	341	467	98	5
	Georgetown	207	1	24	29	153	1,240	340	785	115	8
	Hampton	46	2	0	5	39	282	97	165	20	1
	Jasper	166	2	10	24	130	659	244	357	58	3
	Lancaster	237	2	27	32	176	1,708	472	1,140	96	6
	Lee	106	1	9	9	87	457	156	260	41	1
	Marion	110	0	6	2	102	777	229	479	69	15
	Marlboro	185	3	4	10	168	614	191	348	75	7
	McCormick	43	0	3	2	38	113	28	49	36	0
	Newberry	80	0	5	2	73	563	78	458	27	3
	Oconee	229	1	20	7	201	1,453	479	859	115	9
	Orangeburg	386	13	53	80	240	3,444	1,055	1,809	580	8
	Union	128	1	5	8	114	529	146	339	44	9
	Williamsburg	148	4	13	23	108	1,003	364	500	139	27

¹ The FBI does not publish arson data unless it receives data from either the agency or the state for all 12 months of the calendar year.

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