Pawleys Island has an overall crime rate of 68 per 1,000 residents, making the crime rate here near the average for all cities and towns of all sizes in America. According to our analysis of FBI crime data, your chance of becoming a victim of crime in Pawleys Island is 1 in 15. How does Pawleys Island fare compared to other communities in South Carolina of all population sizes? Pawleys Island's crime rate is lower than approximately 72% of South Carolina communities.

However, when you compare Pawleys Island to other communities of similar population, then Pawleys Island crime rate (violent and property crimes combined) is quite a bit higher than average. Regardless of how Pawleys Island does relative to all communities in America of all sizes, when NeighborhoodScout compared it to communities of similar population size, its crime rate per thousand residents stands out as higher than most.

Now let us turn to take a look at how Pawleys Island does for violent crimes specifically, and then how it does for property crimes. This is important because the overall crime rate can be further illuminated by understanding if violent crime or property crimes (or both) are the major contributors to the general rate of crime in Pawleys Island.

Importantly, our analysis shows that Pawleys Island has one of the lowest violent crime rates in all of America, across cities and towns of all sizes. Murder, rape, armed robbery and aggravated assault happen far less frequently here than in most places. Your chance of becoming a victim? Just one in 10000. Pawleys Island's violent crime rate is just 0 per 1,000 residents.

In addition, NeighborhoodScout found that a lot of the crime that takes place in Pawleys Island is property crime. Property crimes that are tracked for this analysis are burglary, larceny over fifty dollars, motor vehicle theft, and arson. In Pawleys Island, your chance of becoming a victim of a property crime is one in 15, which is a rate of 68 per one thousand population.

Importantly, we found that Pawleys Island has one of the highest rates of motor vehicle theft in the nation according to our analysis of FBI crime data. This is compared to communities of all sizes, from the smallest to the largest. In fact, your chance of getting your car stolen if you live in Pawleys Island is one in 133.