Tega Cay sees less violent crime per resident than 88% of U.S. towns
Its letter overall is A− (#1 of 87 graded towns in South Carolina): less crime per resident than 82% of U.S. towns, from crimes its police reported through 2023 to 2025. Police counts work out at 0.4 violent crime and 6.0 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents annually; in the rest of South Carolina they are 5.2 and 27.4.
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 Tega Cay
Among South Carolina towns, higher
South Carolina’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Tega Cay’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 99% of the 87 South Carolina towns we grade, against 82% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Tega Cay’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 | Tega Cay | Rest of South Carolina | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 0.4 | 5.8 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 0.2 | 5.6 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 0.3 | 5.4 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.7 | 4.5 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Tega Cay’s police reported 18 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.4 per 1,000 residents a year, against 5.2 in the rest of South Carolina and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Crime in Tega Cay 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 1 violent crime, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Reported crime is steady
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| Year | Tega Cay property | Rest of South Carolina property | Tega Cay violent | Rest of South Carolina violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 10.4 | 31.2 | 0.4 | 5.8 |
| 2023 | 9.0 | 30.6 | 0.2 | 5.6 |
| 2024 | 3.0 | 27.9 | 0.3 | 5.4 |
| 2025 | 6.1 | 23.8 | 0.7 | 4.5 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident was steady from 2023 to 2025: the change is within ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of South Carolina.
100 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.
11 violent and 89 property, as reported to the FBI by Tega Cay’s police.
No one died in a crash on Tega Cay’s roads in 2019–2023
That is fewer than is typical for South Carolina towns of 5,000–25,000 people: at their median rate (8.8 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Tega Cay’s size would see about 6 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Tega Cay’s own rate (0.0) 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.
Tega Cay and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tega Cay | A− | 0.4 | 6.0 |
| Baxter Village | — | — | — |
| Riverview | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Baxter Village and Riverview are unincorporated communities (census-designated places) with no police department of their own.
South Carolina towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tega Cay | A− | 0.4 | 6.0 |
| Fountain Inn | B− | 2.1 | 10.7 |
| Hardeeville | B− | 1.5 | 14.4 |
| Beaufort | D | 4.9 | 30.1 |
| Cayce | D | 6.9 | 26.9 |
| Orangeburg | D− | 13.2 | 56.2 |
The five graded South Carolina towns closest to Tega Cay’s population (14,457), 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 Tega Cay. 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 Tega Cay’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (14,671 in 2025); our figure for Tega Cay is 14,457 (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 Tega Cay
Is Tega Cay, SC safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Tega Cay reports less crime per resident than 82% of U.S. towns, an A− Safety Grade and #1 of 87 in South Carolina. Its police reported 0.4 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 Tega Cay?
0.4 violent and 6.0 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.
Who polices Tega Cay?
Tega Cay’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Tega Cay”. 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.