Batesburg-Leesville
Town in Lexington County, Saluda County, 4,941 people.
Police
Sheriffs and county police in its counties: Lexington County Sheriff's Office, Saluda County Sheriff's Office.
A department is the place's own when its name is the place's and its FBI population fits the place's people (decision city-or-town-is-its-police-department). Agencies: FBI NIBRS master file 2025 batch headers; names from the FBI agency list, pulled 2026-09-29.
Where it sits
- Counties
- Lexington CountySaluda County
- People
- 4,941
- Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020 to 2024
How a case moves here
Batesburg-Leesville follows South Carolina law on arrests, release, and courts; the full set covers prosecutors, defense, and jails too.
- Who decides release first
A magistrate, or a municipal judge for city charges, sets bond at a hearing within 24 hours of arrest. Magistrates need not be lawyers. A magistrate can't set bail on a charge punishable by death or life in prison; a circuit judge does.
S.C. Code 22-5-510S.C. Code 17-15-10 and following- Time to see a judge
A person charged with a bailable offense must have a bond hearing within 24 hours of arrest, and the jail must release the person within four hours after the bond is delivered.
S.C. Code 22-5-510(B)- Money bail
Magistrates and judges may set cash or surety bonds. A person charged with a new violent offense while out on bond for one loses the first bond, and any new bond must be paid in full cash.
S.C. Code 17-15-10, 17-15-15, 17-15-55
Read from the statutes and court rules cited, 2026-09-30. Magistrates are called summary court judges, so setter_is_judge is "yes" though they need not be lawyers. Whether municipal or magistrate courts use a bail schedule for minor offenses was not found. How many counties have moved the jail from the sheriff to the county government was not counted.
Crime
Offenses reported by Batesburg-Leesville Police Department, Batesburg-Leesville's own department. The county sheriff and state police may answer calls here too; their offenses are on their own pages.
The crime index
| Offense | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Per 100k | South Carolina |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violent crime | 28 | 38 | 25 | 41 | 60 | 723 | 460 |
| Murder | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 8.9 | ||||
| Rape | 10 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 90 | 39 |
| Robbery | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 38 |
| Aggravated assault | 16 | 33 | 22 | 36 | 48 | 583 | 373 |
| Property crime | 194 | 192 | 131 | 150 | 143 | 3,049 | 2,130 |
| Burglary | 15 | 21 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 222 | 319 |
| Larceny | 167 | 160 | 118 | 136 | 125 | 2,658 | 1,578 |
| Motor vehicle theft | 12 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 169 | 234 |
| Arson | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 12 |
Outside the crime index
| Offense | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Per 100k | South Carolina |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All offenses outside the crime index | 504 | 571 | 539 | 502 | 528 | 9,953 | 3,684 |
| Simple assault and intimidation | 168 | 144 | 134 | 201 | 172 | 3,083 | 1,319 |
| Vandalism | 13 | 9 | 19 | 38 | 45 | 467 | 606 |
| Fraud | 57 | 63 | 46 | 52 | 39 | 967 | 437 |
| Drug abuse violations | 199 | 284 | 275 | 153 | 209 | 4,216 | 892 |
| Weapons: carrying, possessing, etc. | 24 | 35 | 39 | 25 | 28 | 568 | 176 |
| Stolen property: buying, receiving, possessing | 9 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 143 | 69 |
| Forgery and counterfeiting | 19 | 23 | 14 | 9 | 8 | 275 | 72 |
| Embezzlement | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 15 | ||||
| Sex offenses (except rape and prostitution) | 4 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 87 | 34 |
| Other Group A offenses | 11 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 143 | 60 |
Offenses Batesburg-Leesville Police Department reported to the FBI in incident detail (NIBRS), each year, the second table by the arrest class each offense falls in. Per 100k: offenses per 100,000 people the department polices, 2021 to 2025 added together, beside South Carolina's rate over the same years. – means too few for a rate: the count is under 20.
Source: FBI NIBRS national master files, each agency's offenses and the FBI's population for it. South Carolina: the crime index: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, CrimeDB's chosen value per year (the state page's figures); outside it: FBI NIBRS, agencies that sent incident detail.