Crime & Safety in Summerville
Summerville's crime data carries a real, disclosed disagreement even between two crime-data aggregators -- DoorProfit cites a D overall safety grade while CrimeGrade.org cites a somewhat more favorable C- -- both meaningfully less favorable than Mount Pleasant's or Bluffton's grades in this dataset.
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Learn moreA real, disclosed cross-source disagreement
DoorProfit cites an overall D safety grade for Summerville with a total crime rate of 1,596 per 100,000 residents, while CrimeGrade.org cites a somewhat more favorable C- grade for the same city -- both disclosed rather than reconciled to one figure.
CrimeGrade's more granular breakdown
By CrimeGrade's own measures, Summerville's violent crime rate runs 3.443 per 1,000 residents (39th percentile for safety), and its property crime rate runs 15.86 per 1,000 (35th percentile), with an overall safety percentile of 32 -- meaningfully less favorable than Mount Pleasant's A+ grade or Bluffton's A- grade cited elsewhere in this dataset.
Real neighborhood-level variance
Evergreen carries a favorable A grade with a crime index 53% below the national average, per this same sourcing -- disclosed as the one specific favorably-rated area named by the source reviewed, not as a claim that all of Summerville shares that profile. No specific neighborhood is named as unsafe here, per site policy.
Key takeaways
- Summerville's crime grading shows a real, disclosed cross-source gap: D per DoorProfit, C- per CrimeGrade.
- CrimeGrade's granular figures (39th percentile violent-crime safety, 35th percentile property-crime safety) read meaningfully less favorable than Mount Pleasant's or Bluffton's grades in this dataset.
- Evergreen carries a favorably-rated A grade, illustrating real neighborhood-level variance; no area is named as unsafe here, per site policy.
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