Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. The jail figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site on September 24, 2026.
Greenville County, South Carolina, has about 571,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Greenville County Sheriff's Office, six city agencies and ten campus, state or other agencies. An arrest leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the Solicitor files charges, a case in the Greenville County Circuit Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts each agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.
Related guides: Greenville County public records, South Carolina arrest records, South Carolina inmate search and South Carolina criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Greenville County
The Greenville County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Greenville County. It reported 11,962 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists six cities in Greenville County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Greenville, 74,371 residents: 3,707 arrests reported for 2025.
- Greer, 46,316 residents: 1,205 arrests reported for 2025.
- Mauldin, 29,746 residents: 644 arrests reported for 2025.
- Simpsonville, 28,078 residents: 639 arrests reported for 2025.
- Fountain Inn, 13,786 residents: 516 arrests reported for 2025.
- Travelers Rest, 8,960 residents: 251 arrests reported for 2025.
A city on that list is reported separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Greenville County: Greenville Technical College, Furman University and Bob Jones University (campus police); the Greenville County State Transport Police, the Department of Health and Environmental Control Drug Control in Greenville County, Greenville County South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, the Department of Natural Resources in Greenville County and one more (state agency); Greenville Hospital at Greenville (other); the Highway Patrol in Greenville County (state police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Greenville County
The FBI publishes every agency's monthly arrest counts on the Crime Data Explorer. These are the full-year totals, all offenses, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026; a year with months missing or not reported is left out.
- Greenville County Sheriff's Office: 11,962 for 2025, 12,051 for 2024, 11,872 for 2023, 10,468 for 2022, 9,986 for 2021 and 10,255 for 2020.
- Greenville: 3,707 for 2025, 3,910 for 2024, 4,526 for 2023, 4,248 for 2022, 4,179 for 2021 and 4,717 for 2020.
- Greer: 1,205 for 2025, 1,138 for 2024, 1,049 for 2023, 990 for 2022, 1,088 for 2021 and 1,192 for 2020.
- Mauldin: 644 for 2025, 533 for 2024, 541 for 2023, 483 for 2022, 530 for 2021 and 630 for 2020.
- Simpsonville: 639 for 2025, 733 for 2024, 899 for 2023, 995 for 2022, 775 for 2021 and 722 for 2020.
- Fountain Inn: 516 for 2025, 461 for 2023, 352 for 2022, 364 for 2021, 458 for 2020 and 355 for 2019; 2024 is missing months.
- Travelers Rest: 251 for 2025, 356 for 2024, 519 for 2023, 322 for 2022, 291 for 2021 and 453 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
Together, the seven agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 18,924 arrests that year. The six of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 18,408 in 2025 against 18,721 in 2024, down 1.7 percent.
Through July 2026, the seven agencies with every month so far on file reported 10,727 arrests, against 11,164 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Greenville County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Greenville County and kept in custody ends up, whichever agency made the arrest, though a city department may hold someone in its own cells first and a person cited and released at the scene is never booked. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and once the person is released or sentenced the record continues in the court file.
On an average day in 2024 the jail held about 1,460 people, up from about 1,280 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 1,277 beds, and it ran at 104 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the Greenville County Sheriff's Office at app.greenvillecounty.org/inmate_search.htm (page title: Inmate Search), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
That page is the place to look for someone who was booked recently; a person cited and released at the scene, or held only a few hours by a city department, will not be on it.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the South Carolina Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at doc.sc.gov/inmate-search-disclaimer.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Greenville County
An arrest in Greenville County can be traced in three places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Greenville County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Greenville County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at greenvillecounty.org/ClerkOfCourt/CopiesOfRecords.aspx); the Solicitor, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at greenvillecounty.org/Solicitor, phone 864-467-8647).
South Carolina is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: the CATCH service lets anyone run a name-based criminal record search online, for $25 a search, through the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division. That record shows what agencies reported to the state, which is wider than one county's court index but can lag it.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Greenville County
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the South Carolina Freedom of Information Act the agency must answer within 10 business days, or 20 for records more than two years old, and it may charge search, retrieval and copying at the agency's actual cost.
- An arrest by the Greenville County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Greenville, Greer, Mauldin, Simpsonville, Fountain Inn or Travelers Rest: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- An arrest by Greenville Technical College, Furman University or Bob Jones University: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Solicitor, 864-467-8647, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Greenville County Circuit Court, through the court records page at greenvillecounty.org.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Greenville County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for every one of the six cities in Greenville County: Greenville, Greer, Mauldin, Simpsonville, Fountain Inn and Travelers Rest.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Greenville County Circuit Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Greenville County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Mauldin (29,746)
- Simpsonville (28,078)
- Fountain Inn (13,786)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Greenville County each year?
The Greenville County Sheriff's Office reported 11,962 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the seven agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 18,924 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Greenville County?
Look on the custody page of the Greenville County Sheriff's Office at app.greenvillecounty.org/inmate_search.htm. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Greenville County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Greenville County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Greenville County?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division: the CATCH service lets anyone run a name-based criminal record search online, for $25. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the South Carolina Freedom of Information Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Greenville County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Greenville County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the South Carolina Freedom of Information Act the answer is due within 10 business days, or 20 for records more than two years old.
Is this the official Greenville County website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.