Table 10

South Carolina
Offenses Known to Law Enforcement
by State by Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Counties, 2006
[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	364	7	46	72	239	3,096	909	1,832	355	2
	Anderson	799	13	63	109	614	5,888	1,484	3,809	595	45
	Berkeley	659	14	39	131	475	3,258	1,008	1,822	428	19
	Calhoun	25	0	1	2	22	249	58	157	34	1
	Charleston	838	5	38	110	685	2,951	832	1,729	390	11
	Darlington	688	0	22	48	618	2,228	768	1,244	216	30
	Dorchester	429	2	26	54	347	2,551	618	1,686	247	6
	Edgefield	46	1	3	5	37	355	90	233	32	0
	Fairfield	238	7	10	12	209	583	188	342	53	5
	Florence	575	4	15	101	455	3,164	713	2,139	312	10
	Greenville	2,262	17	101	444	1,700	11,223	3,447	6,595	1,181	37
	Horry	0	0	0	0	0	50	0	49	1	0
	Horry County Police Department	1,063	14	77	171	801	7,321	1,754	4,612	955	40
	Laurens	246	3	25	22	196	1,619	573	800	246	12
	Lexington	547	9	35	88	415	4,024	943	2,652	429	7
	Pickens	216	4	23	7	182	1,737	489	1,044	204	13
	Richland	1,882	31	92	316	1,443	8,115	1,791	5,490	834	26
	Saluda	33	0	3	5	25	142	26	105	11	1
	Spartanburg	959	14	45	206	694	7,892	2,078	5,210	604	34
	Sumter	801	6	26	55	714	2,554	912	1,434	208	36
	York	674	3	40	65	566	2,995	724	2,001	270	18
Nonmetropolitan Counties	Abbeville	42	0	1	2	39	307	91	195	21	0
	Allendale	17	1	0	1	15	75	25	47	3	1
	Bamberg	46	4	3	2	37	203	80	92	31	2
	Barnwell	101	1	1	4	95	333	106	216	11	1
	Beaufort	750	6	37	128	579	4,062	1,078	2,716	268	19
	Cherokee	186	1	15	29	141	1,533	376	1,009	148	7
	Chester	245	4	8	16	217	826	200	582	44	8
	Chesterfield	144	0	3	3	138	764	226	476	62	8
	Clarendon	232	1	13	38	180	876	218	541	117	2
	Colleton	247	2	11	19	215	1,057	255	678	124	13
	Dillon	169	2	16	42	109	798	279	424	95	9
	Georgetown	201	1	11	21	168	1,371	346	915	110	6
	Greenwood	353	3	21	10	319	1,646	359	1,184	103	3
	Hampton	76	0	3	1	72	315	107	191	17	5
	Jasper	152	7	10	26	109	711	245	385	81	2
	Lancaster	228	2	28	40	158	1,695	433	1,179	83	9
	Lee	79	3	4	7	65	380	99	242	39	6
	Marion	145	1	4	12	128	696	202	432	62	4
	Marlboro	202	2	11	10	179	515	166	312	37	3
	McCormick	22	0	1	0	21	91	26	51	14	1
	Newberry	65	0	6	10	49	468	70	382	16	2
	Oconee	210	3	17	9	181	1,114	308	725	81	7
	Orangeburg²	273	7	41	61	164		1,362	1,703		16
	Union	146	0	12	12	122	484	144	304	36	6
	Williamsburg	136	4	6	15	111	855	293	439	123	23

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.
²The FBI determined that the agency's data were inflated. Consequently, affected data are not included in this table.

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