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 between September 24, 2026 and October 9, 2026.
Spartanburg County, South Carolina, has about 369,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office, 11 city agencies and 11 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 Spartanburg 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: Spartanburg County public records, South Carolina arrest records, South Carolina inmate search and South Carolina criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Spartanburg County
The Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Spartanburg County. It reported 898 arrests for 2024, its latest complete year.
The FBI lists 11 cities in Spartanburg County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Spartanburg, 39,606 residents: 1,861 arrests reported for 2024.
- Lyman, 6,939 residents: 107 arrests reported for 2025.
- Woodruff, 5,072 residents: 145 arrests reported for 2024.
- Duncan, 4,594 residents: 282 arrests reported for 2024.
- Wellford, 3,733 residents: 129 arrests reported for 2025.
- Inman, 3,354 residents: 84 arrests reported for 2025.
- Landrum, 2,792 residents: 51 arrests reported for 2025.
- Pacolet, 2,566 residents: 26 arrests reported for 2025.
- Cowpens, 2,230 residents: 22 arrests reported for 2025.
- Chesnee, 935 residents: 39 arrests reported for 2025.
- Campobello, 766 residents: 1,152 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 Greer Police Department is listed by the FBI across two counties including Spartanburg County, so its arrests are not broken out for Spartanburg County here.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Spartanburg County: the Department of Natural Resources in Spartanburg County, the Spartanburg County State Transport Police, South Carolina School for the Deaf and Blind, the Department of Health and Environmental Control Drug Control in Spartanburg County and two more (state agency); the University of South Carolina at Upstate, Spartanburg Methodist College and Wofford College (campus police); Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport (other); the Highway Patrol in Spartanburg County (state police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Spartanburg County
Each agency reports its arrests to the FBI by month, and the FBI publishes them 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.
- Campobello: 1,152 for 2025, 1,188 for 2024, 1,188 for 2023, 1,188 for 2022, 1,188 for 2021 and 1,188 for 2020.
- Wellford: 129 for 2025, 113 for 2024, 135 for 2022, 139 for 2021 and 254 for 2019; 2020 and 2023 are missing months.
- Lyman: 107 for 2025, 108 for 2024, 61 for 2023, 94 for 2022, 129 for 2021 and 144 for 2020.
- Inman: 84 for 2025, 131 for 2024, 165 for 2023, 76 for 2022, 57 for 2021 and 111 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
- Landrum: 51 for 2025, 49 for 2024, 55 for 2023, 75 for 2022, 71 for 2021 and 112 for 2020.
- Chesnee: 39 for 2025, 42 for 2024, 62 for 2023, 37 for 2022, 12 for 2021 and 27 for 2020.
- Pacolet: 26 for 2025, 20 for 2024, 13 for 2023, 38 for 2022, 91 for 2021 and 22 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
- Cowpens: 22 for 2025, 50 for 2024, 60 for 2023, 49 for 2022, 76 for 2021 and 110 for 2020.
- Spartanburg: 1,861 for 2024, 1,843 for 2023, 1,865 for 2022, 1,913 for 2021, 1,646 for 2020 and 2,028 for 2019.
- Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office: 898 for 2024, 1,067 for 2023, 2,559 for 2022, 1,723 for 2021, 3,083 for 2020 and 3,175 for 2019.
- Duncan: 282 for 2024, 185 for 2023, 333 for 2022, 298 for 2021, 324 for 2020 and 482 for 2019.
- Woodruff: 145 for 2024, 155 for 2023, 251 for 2022, 188 for 2021, 151 for 2020 and 147 for 2019.
Together, the eight agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,610 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,610 in 2025 against 1,701 in 2024, down 5.3 percent.
Through June 2026, the seven agencies with every month so far on file reported 727 arrests, against 830 in the same months of 2025.
Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office, Spartanburg, Woodruff and Duncan reported only part of 2025 (6 months, 6 months, 5 months and 8 months) and are left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Spartanburg County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Spartanburg County is held at the county jail, whichever agency made the arrest, apart from the short stay some city departments' own holding cells allow; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked at all. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and the court file takes over from there.
On an average day in 2024 the jail held about 890 people, up from about 890 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 496 beds, and it ran at 167 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office at spartanburgcounty.gov/595/Detention-Center (page title: Detention Center | Spartanburg County, SC), phone 864-596-3424, 950 California Ave Spartanburg, SC 29303, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the South Carolina Department of Corrections lists its inmates at doc.sc.gov/inmate-search-disclaimer.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Spartanburg County
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 Spartanburg 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 Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 864-596-3424.
- An arrest in Spartanburg, Lyman, Woodruff, Duncan, Wellford, Inman or another of the cities listed above: 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 the Department of Natural Resources in Spartanburg County, the University of South Carolina at Upstate or Spartanburg Methodist College: the records office of the agency involved.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at spartanburg-county-sc.nextrequest.com (page title: Open Public RecordsNextRequest | Modern FOIA & Public Records Request Software).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The other Spartanburg County guides go further: warrants, inmate search, police reports and property records.
Cities in Spartanburg County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for 11 of the 13 cities in Spartanburg County: Spartanburg, Lyman, Woodruff, Duncan, Wellford, Inman, Landrum, Pacolet, Cowpens, Chesnee and Campobello. Reidville and Central Pacolet have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Spartanburg County Circuit Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Spartanburg County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Lyman (6,939)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Spartanburg County each year?
Campobello reported 1,152 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the eight agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,610 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Spartanburg County?
Ask the Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office at 864-596-3424; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at spartanburgcounty.gov/595/Detention-Center.
Where are people arrested in Spartanburg County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Spartanburg 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 Spartanburg County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Spartanburg 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; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at spartanburg-county-sc.nextrequest.com.
Is this the official Spartanburg 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.