Photo: Bill Fitzpatrick · CC BY-SA 3.0Fort Mill sees less violent crime per resident than four in five U.S. towns
The graded rate fell 18% from 2023 to 2025. On top of that, on the record of crimes Fort Mill’s police reported from 2023 to 2025, it takes A− for safety: #2 of 87 graded towns in South Carolina. Violence and property crime split as 0.5 violent crime and 5.8 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, beside 5.3 and 27.7 in the rest of 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 Fort Mill
Among South Carolina towns, higher
South Carolina’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Fort Mill’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 98% of the 87 South Carolina towns we grade, against 81% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
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 Fort Mill’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 lower than in most U.S. towns; violent crime is the stronger of the two.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Fort Mill | Rest of South Carolina | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 0.7 | 5.8 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 0.8 | 5.7 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 0.5 | 5.5 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.3 | 4.6 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Fort Mill’s police reported 57 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.5 per 1,000 residents a year, against 5.3 in the rest of South Carolina and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Fort Mill property | Rest of South Carolina property | Fort Mill violent | Rest of South Carolina violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 7.4 | 31.5 | 0.7 | 5.8 |
| 2023 | 5.9 | 30.9 | 0.8 | 5.7 |
| 2024 | 6.3 | 28.2 | 0.5 | 5.5 |
| 2025 | 5.2 | 24.1 | 0.3 | 4.6 |
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.
Crime in Fort Mill 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 fewer than 1 violent crime, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
219 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.
12 violent and 207 property, as reported to the FBI by Fort Mill’s police.
Five people died in crashes on Fort Mill’s roads in 2019–2023
Fort Mill had 5 fatal crashes in five years, in which five people died; 1 was a pedestrian. 2 died in crashes on an Interstate.
That is fewer than is typical for South Carolina towns of 25,000–100,000 people: at their median rate (8.8 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Fort Mill’s size would see about 14 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Fort Mill’s own rate (3.2) is context, not a ranking.
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.
Fort Mill and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Mill | A− | 0.5 | 5.8 |
| Riverview | — | — | — |
| Baxter Village | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Riverview and Baxter Village are unincorporated communities (census-designated places) with no police department of their own.
South Carolina towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Mill | A− | 0.5 | 5.8 |
| Bluffton | B+ | 0.8 | 8.3 |
| Aiken | D | 4.5 | 36.0 |
| Sumter | D− | 9.0 | 34.6 |
| Florence | D− | 8.6 | 43.2 |
| Myrtle Beach | D− | 10.7 | 56.3 |
The five graded South Carolina towns closest to Fort Mill’s population (38,673), 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 Fort Mill. 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 Fort Mill’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (39,692 in 2025); our figure for Fort Mill is 38,673 (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 Fort Mill
Is Fort Mill, SC safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Fort Mill reports less crime per resident than 81% of U.S. towns, an A− Safety Grade and #2 of 87 in South Carolina. Its police reported 0.5 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 5.3 in the rest of South Carolina and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Fort Mill?
0.5 violent and 5.8 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of South Carolina reports 5.3 and 27.7; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
How many homicides were there in Fort Mill in 2025?
Fort Mill’s police reported 1 homicides to the FBI for 2025, 2.5 per 100,000 residents. Across U.S. cities and towns in the FBI’s tables the 2025 figure was 4.6.
Who polices Fort Mill?
Fort Mill’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Fort Mill”. 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.