Spartanburg County, South Carolina

How a case moves here

Spartanburg County follows South Carolina law on arrests, release, and courts. These rules are the same in every county in the state; 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 22-5-510 S.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
Courts: The circuit court, sitting as the Court of General Sessions, tries felonies and the more serious misdemeanors. Magistrate courts in each county try crimes punished by up to 30 days in jail or a $500 fine, and municipal courts try similar crimes and ordinance violations inside city limits.
S.C. Code 22-3-540, 22-3-550 S.C. Const. art. V, sec. 13
Judges and magistrates: The General Assembly elects circuit judges by a joint vote for six-year terms. The governor appoints magistrates, with the Senate's consent, for four-year terms. Magistrates appointed since 2005 need a four-year college degree and must pass a certification exam, but need not be lawyers.
S.C. Const. art. V, sec. 13 S.C. Code 22-1-10

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.

What this county does differently

Nothing county-specific yet

Whether Spartanburg County runs a pretrial services office, uses a risk assessment, or has its own bail schedule appears here once a cited source says so.

Cities and towns

Greer41,536
Spartanburg38,910
Lyman town6,547
Woodruff4,538
Duncan town4,310
Wellford3,515
Inman3,166
Landrum2,620
Pacolet town2,419
Reidville town2,194
Cowpens town1,840
Chesnee896
Campobello town776
Central Pacolet town206

Every city, village, town, and township with any of its land in Spartanburg County, largest first. Population, the whole place's: Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020 to 2024.

Police agencies

Agencies: FBI NIBRS master file 2025 batch headers; names from the FBI agency list, pulled 2026-09-29. An agency that serves several counties appears on each. Population served is the FBI's figure.

Crime

The crime index

Crime index offenses reported by agencies in Spartanburg County, 2021 to 2025
Offense	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	Per 100k	South Carolina
Violent crime	1,800	1,850	2,006	1,898	817	490	460
Murder	19	27	18	20	7	5.3	8.9
Rape	171	165	145	150	64	41	39
Robbery	148	119	124	107	53	32	38
Aggravated assault	1,462	1,539	1,719	1,621	693	412	373
Property crime	7,338	7,200	7,518	5,610	2,483	1,766	2,130
Burglary	1,520	1,255	1,314	948	411	319	319
Larceny	5,008	5,173	5,177	4,031	1,823	1,243	1,578
Motor vehicle theft	810	772	1,027	631	249	204	234
Arson	47	50	43	26	17	11	12

Outside the crime index

Offenses outside the crime index reported by agencies in Spartanburg County, 2021 to 2025
Offense	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	Per 100k	South Carolina
All offenses outside the crime index	10,748	10,890	10,011	9,041	4,534	2,649	3,684
Simple assault and intimidation	4,310	4,225	3,944	3,862	2,113	1,081	1,319
Vandalism	1,716	1,664	1,594	1,293	555	400	606
Fraud	1,348	1,610	1,563	1,370	591	380	437
Drug abuse violations	2,353	2,294	1,918	1,653	905	534	892
Weapons: carrying, possessing, etc.	384	417	379	271	165	95	176
Stolen property: buying, receiving, possessing	154	150	133	128	66	37	69
Forgery and counterfeiting	215	203	219	191	37	51	72
Embezzlement	64	74	90	55	19	18	15
Sex offenses (except rape and prostitution)	86	135	71	89	25	24	34
Prostitution and commercialized vice	5	4	3	14	10	2.1	2.4
Gambling	4	4	2	3		Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.	1
Other Group A offenses	109	110	95	112	48	28	60
Manslaughter by negligence (not in the total)			1	4	1	Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.	0.5
Human trafficking (not in the total)	1					Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.	0.7

Offenses agencies in Spartanburg County 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 reporting agencies police, 2021 to 2025 added together, beside South Carolina's rate over the same years. Agencies that reported part of a year are counted with their people, as the state's rates count them. – 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.