Paris Mountain State Park Historic District · Photo: Bill Fitzpatrick · CC BY-SA 3.0In Travelers Rest, the kinds of crime the grade counts fell 51% per resident from 2023 to 2025
Its police logs show 2.5 violent crimes and 23.4 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, while in the rest of South Carolina the numbers are 5.2 and 27.3. Taking everything together, Travelers Rest scores C− (#34 of 87 graded towns in South Carolina): more crime per resident than 77% of U.S. towns, measured on crimes its police reported between 2023 and 2025. Violent crime here is higher than in 65% of U.S. towns; property crime, higher than in 83%.
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 Travelers Rest
Among South Carolina towns, closer to the middle
South Carolina’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Travelers Rest’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 61% of the 87 South Carolina towns we grade, against 23% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
A college town
Travelers Rest is home to Furman University, with 2,473 students taking classes on campus (federal college data), and 31% of residents are enrolled in college (Census). Students who live in town count as residents, so they are part of the per-resident rate. How to read it ↓
A job center
Travelers Rest has 5,637 jobs based in town for 9,135 residents (Census LEHD), so some reports involve people who work or shop there rather than residents. How to read it ↓
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 Travelers Rest’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; violent crime is the closer of the two to typical. Its violent rate (2.5) is below the FBI’s national estimate (3.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Travelers Rest property | Rest of South Carolina property | Travelers Rest violent | Rest of South Carolina violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 27.9 | 31.1 | 0.1 | 5.8 |
| 2023 | 31.6 | 30.4 | 2.3 | 5.6 |
| 2024 | 24.9 | 27.8 | 2.6 | 5.4 |
| 2025 | 14.1 | 23.7 | 2.5 | 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 | Travelers Rest | Rest of South Carolina | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 0.1 | 5.8 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 2.3 | 5.6 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 2.6 | 5.4 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 2.5 | 4.5 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Travelers Rest’s police reported 67 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 2.5 per 1,000 residents a year, against 5.2 in the rest of South Carolina and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Crime in Travelers Rest 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 3 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
154 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.
23 violent and 131 property, as reported to the FBI by Travelers Rest’s police.
Four people died in crashes on Travelers Rest’s roads in 2019–2023
Travelers Rest had 4 fatal crashes in five years, in which four people died; 1 was a pedestrian.
That is about what 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 Travelers Rest’s size would see about 4 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Travelers Rest’s own rate (9.6) 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.
Travelers Rest and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Travelers Rest | C− | 2.5 | 23.4 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
South Carolina towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Travelers Rest | C− | 2.5 | 23.4 |
| Seneca | C− | 4.9 | 15.7 |
| Laurens | D | 8.3 | 30.3 |
| Camden | D− | 8.7 | 38.7 |
| Lancaster | D− | 10.0 | 53.7 |
| Union | D− | 10.6 | 69.3 |
The five graded South Carolina towns closest to Travelers Rest’s population (9,135), 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 Travelers Rest. 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 Travelers Rest’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (9,273 in 2025); our figure for Travelers Rest is 9,135 (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 Travelers Rest
Is Travelers Rest, SC safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Travelers Rest reports more crime per resident than 77% of U.S. towns, a C− Safety Grade and #34 of 87 in South Carolina. Its police reported 2.5 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 Travelers Rest?
2.5 violent and 23.4 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 Travelers Rest?
Travelers Rest’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Travelers Rest”. 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.