Photo: Evanoco · CC BY-SA 4.0Recorded crime per resident is higher in Timmonsville than in 94% of U.S. towns
It has more violent crime than 97% of U.S. towns, and more property crime than 84%. Counting crimes Timmonsville’s police reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades D for safety. Violence and property crime split as 8.9 violent crimes and 24.3 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, beside 5.2 and 27.3 in the rest of South Carolina. Still, the crimes the grade counts fell 37% 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 Timmonsville
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 Timmonsville’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 | Timmonsville property | Rest of South Carolina property | Timmonsville violent | Rest of South Carolina violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 36.9 | 31.1 | 19.7 | 5.7 |
| 2023 | 28.1 | 30.4 | 15.7 | 5.6 |
| 2024 | 22.3 | 27.7 | 5.7 | 5.4 |
| 2025 | 22.6 | 23.7 | 5.2 | 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.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Timmonsville | Rest of South Carolina | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 19.7 | 5.7 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 15.7 | 5.6 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 5.7 | 5.4 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 5.2 | 4.5 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Timmonsville’s police reported 56 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 8.9 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 Timmonsville 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 5 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
59 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 48 property, as reported to the FBI by Timmonsville’s police.
No one died in a crash on Timmonsville’s roads in 2019–2023
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 Timmonsville’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Timmonsville’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.
Timmonsville and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Timmonsville | D | 8.9 | 24.3 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
South Carolina towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Timmonsville | D | 8.9 | 24.3 |
| Ninety Six | C+ | 3.4 | 9.9 |
| Folly Beach | C | 2.7 | 16.0 |
| Blacksburg | C | 2.9 | 17.8 |
| Cowpens | C− | 3.4 | 19.1 |
| McCormick | C− | 2.7 | 28.6 |
The five graded South Carolina towns closest to Timmonsville’s population (2,117), 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 Timmonsville. 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 Timmonsville’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (2,122 in 2025); our figure for Timmonsville is 2,117 (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 Timmonsville
Is Timmonsville, SC safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Timmonsville reports more crime per resident than 94% of U.S. towns, a D Safety Grade. Its police reported 8.9 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 Timmonsville?
8.9 violent and 24.3 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of South Carolina reports 5.2 and 27.3; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Who polices Timmonsville?
Timmonsville’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Timmonsville”. 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.