Photo: Florence Conventions and Visitors Bureau · CC BY-SA 4.0Recorded crime per resident is higher in Florence than in 97% of U.S. towns
The rate the grade counts dropped 7% from 2023 to 2025. For every 1,000 residents, 8.6 violent crimes and 43.2 incidents of property crime were logged a year; in the rest of South Carolina, the figures are 5.1 and 26.9. A Safety Grade of D− follows from crimes Florence’s police reported over the years 2023 to 2025: #64 of 87 graded towns in South Carolina.
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. “Rest of SC” is every other South Carolina city and town in the FBI’s tables; the U.S. figure is the FBI’s national estimate as published, averaged over the three years. The FBI publishes no national homicide or robbery rate in our data, so those compare with all U.S. cities and towns in its tables.
What stands out about safety in Florence
Among South Carolina towns, closer to the middle
South Carolina’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Florence’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 26% of the 87 South Carolina towns we grade, against 3% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
A job center
Florence has 36,958 jobs based in town for 41,231 residents (Census LEHD), so some reports involve people who work or shop there rather than residents. How to read it ↓
Reported crime is falling
Crime reported per resident fell from 2023 to 2025 by more than ordinary year-to-year swings, on the grade’s own score. Trend ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Florence’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Both violent and property crime are higher than in most U.S. towns; violent crime is the closer of the two to typical.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Florence | Rest of South Carolina | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 13.0 | 5.6 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 11.6 | 5.5 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 8.1 | 5.3 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 6.2 | 4.4 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Florence’s police reported 1,050 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 8.6 per 1,000 residents a year, against 5.1 in the rest of South Carolina and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Crime in Florence per 1,000 residents
Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Crimes reported to police in 2025 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.
And about 6 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Florence property | Rest of South Carolina property | Florence violent | Rest of South Carolina violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 55.7 | 30.5 | 13.0 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 44.6 | 30.1 | 11.6 | 5.5 |
| 2024 | 39.2 | 27.5 | 8.1 | 5.3 |
| 2025 | 45.7 | 23.1 | 6.2 | 4.4 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of South Carolina.
2,138 crimes reported in 2025
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
257 violent and 1,881 property, as reported to the FBI by Florence’s police.
33 people died in crashes on Florence’s roads in 2019–2023
Florence had 26 fatal crashes in five years, in which 33 people died; 8 were pedestrians.
That is 16.3 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, above the median for South Carolina towns of 25,000–100,000 people (8.8, 20 towns).
Deaths are counted where the crash happened, not where the people lived: a highway through town adds through-traffic deaths, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Town rates sit below state and U.S. rates because a third of fatal crashes happen outside any town. Road safety is described here and is not part of the Safety Grade. Source: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023.
Florence and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florence | D− | 8.6 | 43.2 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
South Carolina towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florence | D− | 8.6 | 43.2 |
| Fort Mill | A− | 0.5 | 5.8 |
| Bluffton | B+ | 0.8 | 8.3 |
| Greer | C | 2.7 | 15.0 |
| Sumter | D− | 9.0 | 34.6 |
| Myrtle Beach | D− | 10.7 | 56.3 |
The five graded South Carolina towns closest to Florence’s population (41,231), by grade.
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- It’s reported crime. Only incidents reported to and recorded by police appear here. Many crimes are never reported to police.
- One number for all of Florence. A town-wide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of town to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Florence’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (41,133 in 2025); our figure for Florence is 41,231 (2025 Census estimate).
- Gaps are real gaps. A missing year means the department didn’t report a full year, not that nothing happened.
How the grade is calculated, for every town: How TownRatings grades safety →
Questions about safety in Florence
Is Florence, SC safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Florence reports more crime per resident than 97% of U.S. towns, a D− Safety Grade and #64 of 87 in South Carolina. Its police reported 8.6 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 5.1 in the rest of South Carolina and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Florence?
8.6 violent and 43.2 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of South Carolina reports 5.1 and 26.9; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
How many homicides were there in Florence in 2025?
Florence’s police reported 7 homicides to the FBI for 2025, 17.0 per 100,000 residents. Across U.S. cities and towns in the FBI’s tables the 2025 figure was 4.6.
Who polices Florence?
Florence’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Florence”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
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Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 2025, and state and national rates. Counts are crimes reported to police, not convictions. The Safety Grade is our own summary of that data, not an official rating. Road deaths: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023. This isn’t an official statement of public safety. In an emergency, call 911.