After the last entry I did with some statistics about drunk drivers here in SC, I looked up a few crime statistics. Its amazing how high the numbers are for South Carolina. Not all of these are directly attributable to our residents. With over 14 million visitors a year in this state, obviously many crimes are from some of the tourists.
Here's a few numbers that have been reported by a service called, City Rating dot Com. Since I had a bit of a problem believing all of these statistics, I looked at the US Census Bureau and they pretty much agreed. It said that SC has 2.11 times the national average for murder, 7 times for rape, 3.6 times for robbery, 4.11 times for violent crimes, 3.6 times for burglary and 3.47 times as many for car theft. I have no idea who reliable either source is, but found it interesting that they were so close to each other.
I do know that tourists that visit the Myrtle Beach area commit their share of crimes. Horry County has received some bad press over the years for the tremendous high crime numbers, but obviously if you have over 14 million people coming to an area in one year, that is going to greatly affect the crime statistics and so clearly a great deal of crimes are not committed by its residents. I didn't come across any statistics comparing counties within the state, but on a whole I read that the entire state had 767 crimes per 100,000 in 2006 and the only place with numbers worse was the District of Columbia.
Myrtle Beach & SC crime statistics ---- lets not blame it all on the residents
December 19, 2009
