Catholic Presbyterian Church · Photo: Bill Fitzpatrick · CC BY-SA 3.0Crime and safety in Great Falls, SC
Great Falls’ police reported to the FBI for 2023 but not 2024 or 2025, so there is no Safety Grade: the grade needs all three years, 2023–2025. The nearest town with a Safety Grade is Lancaster, 13 miles away, graded D−.
For every 1,000 residents, about 18 property crimes reported
Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2023
Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2023
Crimes reported to police in 2023 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.
And about 10 violent crimes, in 2023. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
The years Great Falls’ police reported
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| Year | Great Falls | Rest of South Carolina | Great Falls | Rest of South Carolina |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 37.7 | 31.1 | 7.2 | 5.8 |
| 2023 | 18.4 | 30.4 | 10.0 | 5.6 |
| 2024 | not reported | 27.7 | not reported | 5.4 |
| 2025 | not reported | 23.7 | not reported | 4.5 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents, against the rest of South Carolina. A year the department didn’t report in full is a gap, not a zero.
54 crimes reported in 2023
2023 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
19 violent and 35 property, as reported to the FBI by Great Falls’ police.
The nearest South Carolina towns with a Safety Grade
Straight-line distance from the center of Great Falls. Nearby towns can differ a lot from Great Falls.
Each town’s own police figures, per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Three people died in crashes on Great Falls’s roads in 2019–2023
Great Falls had 3 fatal crashes in five years, in which three people died; 1 was a pedestrian.
That is about what is typical for South Carolina towns of 2,500–5,000 people: at their median rate (9.6 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Great Falls’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Great Falls’s own rate (35.5) 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.
Great Falls and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
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 Great Falls. 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 Great Falls’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (1,898 in 2023); our figure for Great Falls is 1,960 (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 Great Falls
Is Great Falls, SC safe?
There is no Safety Grade for Great Falls. The nearest South Carolina towns with a grade are Lancaster (D−, 13 mi), Rock Hill (C−, 26 mi), Camden (D−, 27 mi).
Who polices Great Falls?
Great Falls’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Great Falls”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
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Neighbors looking out for each other in Great Falls.
Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 2023, 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.