Crime in Georgia (2024)
Georgia agencies reported 198,900 offenses to the FBI in 2024: 31,941 violent crimes, 166,339 property crimes and 620 arsons, across 399 reporting agencies.
Per 100,000 residents
Against a 2024 population of 11,204,208 (Census estimates). A floor: Georgia agencies that did not report contribute nothing.
Offenses by category
| Offense | Offenses | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Murder & nonnegligent manslaughter | 706 | 0.4% |
| Rape | 3,231 | 1.6% |
| Robbery | 3,998 | 2.0% |
| Aggravated assault | 24,006 | 12.1% |
| Burglary | 21,043 | 10.6% |
| Larceny-theft | 122,891 | 61.8% |
| Motor vehicle theft | 22,405 | 11.3% |
| Arson | 620 | 0.3% |
By county
Counties with sufficient reporting coverage (125 of Georgia's counties).
- Atkinson County
- Baldwin County
- Barrow County
- Bartow County
- Ben Hill County
- Berrien County
- Bibb County
- Bleckley County
- Brantley County
- Brooks County
- Bryan County
- Bulloch County
- Burke County
- Butts County
- Camden County
- Candler County
- Carroll County
- Catoosa County
- Chatham County
- Chattooga County
- Cherokee County
- Clarke County
- Clay County
- Clayton County
- Clinch County
- Cobb County
- Coffee County
- Columbia County
- Cook County
- Coweta County
- Crawford County
- Crisp County
- Dade County
- Dawson County
- Decatur County
- DeKalb County
- Dougherty County
- Douglas County
- Early County
- Echols County
- Effingham County
- Elbert County
- Emanuel County
- Fannin County
- Fayette County
- Floyd County
- Forsyth County
- Franklin County
- Fulton County
- Gilmer County
- Glascock County
- Glynn County
- Gordon County
- Grady County
- Greene County
- Gwinnett County
- Habersham County
- Hall County
- Haralson County
- Harris County
- Hart County
- Heard County
- Henry County
- Houston County
- Irwin County
- Jackson County
- Jasper County
- Jefferson County
- Jones County
- Lamar County
- Lanier County
- Laurens County
- Lee County
- Liberty County
- Lincoln County
- Long County
- Lowndes County
- Lumpkin County
- Madison County
- Marion County
- McDuffie County
- McIntosh County
- Meriwether County
- Mitchell County
- Monroe County
- Montgomery County
- Murray County
- Muscogee County
- Newton County
- Oconee County
- Paulding County
- Pickens County
- Pierce County
- Pike County
- Polk County
- Pulaski County
- Putnam County
- Rabun County
- Randolph County
- Richmond County
- Rockdale County
- Schley County
- Seminole County
- Spalding County
- Sumter County
- Talbot County
- Tattnall County
- Telfair County
- Thomas County
- Tift County
- Toombs County
- Towns County
- Treutlen County
- Troup County
- Twiggs County
- Union County
- Upson County
- Walton County
- Ware County
- Wayne County
- Wheeler County
- White County
- Whitfield County
- Wilkes County
- Worth County
Largest reporting agencies
| Agency | Violent | Property | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| DeKalb County Police Department | 4,107 | 19,854 | 24,010 |
| Atlanta Police Department | 2,691 | 15,356 | 18,071 |
| Gwinnett County Police Department | 1,945 | 10,415 | 12,384 |
| Cobb County Police Department | 1,249 | 6,816 | 8,089 |
| Bibb County Sheriff's Office | 1,740 | 6,280 | 8,057 |
| Augusta-Richmond County Sheriff's Office | 1,024 | 6,717 | 7,776 |
| Columbus Police Department | 1,214 | 4,495 | 5,715 |
| Athens-Clarke County Police Department | 527 | 2,954 | 3,498 |
| Clayton County Police Department | 705 | 2,566 | 3,280 |
| Warner Robins Police Department | 572 | 2,560 | 3,144 |
| East Point Police Department | 460 | 2,548 | 3,010 |
| Henry County Police Department | 473 | 2,486 | 2,961 |
| South Fulton | 529 | 2,145 | 2,690 |
| Valdosta Police Department | 305 | 2,239 | 2,547 |
| Douglasville Police Department | 216 | 1,882 | 2,099 |
How to read these numbers
Counts are offenses reported by law-enforcement agencies to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program for 2024(Return A master file, which incorporates the FBI's own NIBRS-to-SRS conversion for agencies that report incident-based data). Nothing here is estimated: an agency that did not report contributes nothing, so totals are floors, not universes.
County figures use headquarters-county assignment: an agency's offenses count in the county where it is headquartered. Sheriff and state-police activity can span county lines; a county's figure is best read as "offenses reported by agencies based here." Counties where reporting agencies cover less than half of the policed population get no page; between 50% and 80% the page carries a visible partial-coverage notice.
Rates per 100,000 residentsuse Census Population Estimates (PEP) for the same year as the crime data. They appear only where the population served by agencies headquartered in a county is within 10% of the population that lives there. Where a police force covers several counties — the NYPD polices five boroughs from its Manhattan headquarters — the two geographies disagree, and a rate would be wrong by several times over in both directions. Those counties show counts without a rate rather than a number that looks authoritative and isn't.
Because non-reporting agencies contribute nothing, every rate here is a floor: the true rate is at least this high. Rates are most comparable between places with similar reporting coverage, which each page states.
Violent crime = murder + rape + robbery + aggravated assault. Property crime = burglary + larceny-theft + motor vehicle theft. Arson is tracked separately (from the FBI's de-duplicated SRS/NIBRS arson data) and is excluded from the property composite, following FBI practice. Aggravated assault excludes simple assault.
These figures will not match the FBI's published national estimates(which impute for non-reporting agencies) or the 12-month quarterly trend windows elsewhere on this site — different universes, both documented.