Table 10

South Carolina
Offenses Known to Law Enforcement
by State by Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Counties, 2008
[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 Counties	County	Violent crime	Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter	Forcible rape	Robbery	Aggravated assault	Property crime	Burglary	Larceny- theft	Motor vehicle theft	Arson¹
Metropolitan Counties	Aiken	432	4	49	108	271	3,431	1,096	1,911	424	16
	Anderson²	895	13	38	121	723			4,069	800	23
	Berkeley	597	9	41	107	440	3,599	1,041	2,101	457	12
	Calhoun	39	0	1	3	35	352	100	178	74	6
	Dorchester	433	4	12	95	322	2,276	711	1,331	234	13
	Edgefield	28	1	4	4	19	376	78	260	38	1
	Fairfield	216	3	9	15	189	581	153	344	84	0
	Florence	580	5	30	120	425	2,971	721	1,944	306	18
	Greenville	2,242	28	108	518	1,588	10,891	2,945	6,708	1,238	32
	Horry	0	0	0	0	0	41	0	41	0	0
	Horry County Police Department	1,245	12	44	151	1,038	8,153	2,045	5,145	963	37
	Kershaw	214	2	13	23	176	1,369	405	802	162	14
	Laurens	316	2	22	31	261	1,430	444	752	234	12
	Pickens	248	0	24	12	212	1,751	489	1,049	213	13
	Richland	2,438	15	77	496	1,850	9,785	2,414	6,050	1,321	35
	Saluda	50	0	12	5	33	226	58	153	15	2
	Spartanburg	908	12	88	197	611	7,098	1,838	4,569	691	65
	York	552	4	47	57	444	3,192	938	2,021	233	11
Nonmetropolitan Counties	Abbeville	53	1	4	3	45	340	77	234	29	4
	Bamberg	40	0	2	2	36	288	90	156	42	4
	Barnwell	128	0	4	5	119	428	125	273	30	3
	Beaufort	710	6	17	130	557	4,286	1,236	2,780	270	21
	Cherokee	118	4	0	24	90	1,312	436	765	111	5
	Chester	211	2	9	29	171	920	307	558	55	9
	Chesterfield	157	0	7	7	143	897	252	577	68	3
	Clarendon	182	1	11	29	141	1,013	250	623	140	1
	Dillon	329	2	11	56	260	1,073	328	645	100	7
	Georgetown	296	2	20	25	249	1,704	476	1,113	115	6
	Greenwood	301	2	11	9	279	1,600	347	1,150	103	4
	Hampton	104	1	5	7	91	343	118	201	24	0
	Jasper	134	5	11	23	95	791	211	481	99	9
	Lancaster	269	2	27	32	208	2,064	751	1,168	145	8
	Lee	89	2	5	7	75	545	165	301	79	5
	Marion	161	0	2	11	148	837	257	501	79	5
	Marlboro	156	2	6	9	139	694	211	421	62	5
	McCormick	44	1	6	2	35	97	22	61	14	2
	Newberry	68	0	3	5	60	461	72	364	25	0
	Oconee	279	2	23	18	236	1,419	447	875	97	7
	Orangeburg	456	7	32	84	333	3,905	1,337	2,013	555	7
	Union	101	2	3	11	85	460	146	277	37	7
	Williamsburg	168	5	5	40	118	877	287	479	111	18

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

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