Photo: Hashtag youre it · CC BY-SA 4.0Rock Hill reports more crime per resident than 85% of U.S. towns
The grade is C−, built on crimes Rock Hill’s police reported from 2023 to 2025: #39 of 87 graded towns in South Carolina. Its police logs show 4.5 violent crimes and 24.0 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, while in the rest of South Carolina the numbers are 5.2 and 27.4. The crimes the grade counts fell 19% per resident from 2023 to 2025.
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 Rock Hill
Among South Carolina towns, closer to the middle
South Carolina’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Rock Hill’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 55% of the 87 South Carolina towns we grade, against 15% 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 Rock Hill’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; property crime is the closer of the two to typical.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Rock Hill property | Rest of South Carolina property | Rock Hill violent | Rest of South Carolina violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 26.8 | 31.3 | 4.8 | 5.8 |
| 2023 | 26.7 | 30.6 | 5.1 | 5.6 |
| 2024 | 23.5 | 27.9 | 4.4 | 5.4 |
| 2025 | 21.7 | 23.7 | 3.9 | 4.5 |
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 Rock Hill 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 4 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Rock Hill | Rest of South Carolina | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 4.8 | 5.8 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 5.1 | 5.6 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 4.4 | 5.4 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 3.9 | 4.5 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Rock Hill’s police reported 1,020 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 4.5 per 1,000 residents a year, against 5.2 in the rest of South Carolina and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
1,952 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.
298 violent and 1,654 property, as reported to the FBI by Rock Hill’s police.
35 people died in crashes on Rock Hill’s roads in 2019–2023
Rock Hill had 29 fatal crashes in five years, in which 35 people died; 5 were pedestrians and 1 was a cyclist. 10 died in crashes on an Interstate.
That is 9.3 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, about the same as 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.
Rock Hill and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rock Hill | C− | 4.5 | 24.0 |
| Newport | — | — | — |
| India Hook | — | — | — |
| Lesslie | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Newport, India Hook and Lesslie are unincorporated communities (census-designated places) with no police department of their own.
South Carolina towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rock Hill | C− | 4.5 | 24.0 |
| Mount Pleasant | B− | 1.3 | 11.6 |
| Goose Creek | C+ | 2.6 | 14.0 |
| Greer | C | 2.7 | 15.0 |
| Greenville | D | 5.7 | 33.5 |
| North Charleston | D− | 8.0 | 40.0 |
The five graded South Carolina towns closest to Rock Hill’s population (75,911), 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 Rock Hill. A citywide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of the city to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Rock Hill’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (76,087 in 2025); our figure for Rock Hill is 75,911 (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 Rock Hill
Is Rock Hill, SC safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Rock Hill reports more crime per resident than 85% of U.S. towns, a C− Safety Grade and #39 of 87 in South Carolina. Its police reported 4.5 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 5.2 in the rest of South Carolina and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Rock Hill?
4.5 violent and 24.0 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of South Carolina reports 5.2 and 27.4; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
How many homicides were there in Rock Hill in 2025?
Rock Hill’s police reported 3 homicides to the FBI for 2025, 3.9 per 100,000 residents. Across U.S. cities and towns in the FBI’s tables the 2025 figure was 4.6.
Who polices Rock Hill?
Rock Hill’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Rock Hill”. 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.