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Georgia Cities With The Highest Violent-Crime Pressure

Decision-support ranking comparing Georgia cities by current violent crime per 1,000 using the currently published coarse crime context, then routing readers into each city brief for tract context and caveats.

Cities ranked
99
Supported Georgia cities with tract-backed crime context.
Leaderboard

Current order from the latest data

Ranked rows are precomputed and served as static HTML from R2.

#PlaceMetric
1 College Park
Violent Crime has declined 14% since 2021.
13.4 / 1k
2 East Point
Violent Crime moved up by 10.3 / 1k from 0.2 / 1k in 2021 to 10.5 / 1k in 2024. The earlier baseline was too small for a reliable headline percentage.
10.5 / 1k
3 Moultrie
Violent Crime has increased 13% since 2021.
7.9 / 1k
4 Griffin
Violent Crime has declined 25% since 2021.
7.9 / 1k
5 Rome
Violent Crime has increased 15% since 2021.
7.8 / 1k
6 Lagrange
Violent Crime has increased 12% since 2021.
6.6 / 1k
7 Vidalia
Violent Crime has declined 8% since 2021.
6.6 / 1k
8 Chamblee
Violent Crime has declined 28% since 2021.
6.3 / 1k
9 Morrow
Violent Crime has increased 2% since 2021.
5.9 / 1k
10 Hinesville
Violent Crime moved up by 5.5 / 1k from 0.3 / 1k in 2021 to 5.8 / 1k in 2024. The earlier baseline was too small for a reliable headline percentage.
5.8 / 1k
11 Warner Robins
Violent Crime has declined 3% since 2021.
5.7 / 1k
12 Forest Park
Violent Crime has declined 34% since 2021.
5.7 / 1k
13 Gainesville
Violent Crime has increased 27% since 2021.
5.6 / 1k
14 Albany
Violent Crime has declined 46% since 2021.
5.5 / 1k
15 Covington
Violent Crime has increased 18% since 2021.
5.3 / 1k
16 Newnan
Violent Crime has declined 50% since 2021.
5.2 / 1k
17 Valdosta
Violent Crime has increased 70% since 2021.
5.1 / 1k
18 Douglasville
Violent Crime has declined 25% since 2021.
5.0 / 1k
19 Thomasville
Violent Crime has declined 2% since 2021.
4.9 / 1k
20 Milledgeville
Violent Crime has declined 21% since 2021.
4.8 / 1k
21 Atlanta
Violent Crime has declined 38% since 2021.
4.6 / 1k
22 Conyers
Violent Crime has declined 36% since 2023.
4.1 / 1k
23 Columbus
Violent Crime moved up by 3.1 / 1k from 0.9 / 1k in 2021 to 4.0 / 1k in 2024. The earlier baseline was too small for a reliable headline percentage.
4.0 / 1k
24 Stone Mountain
Violent Crime has increased 6% since 2021.
3.8 / 1k
25 Lawrenceville
Violent Crime has increased 12% since 2021.
3.8 / 1k
Research notes

How to read this ranking

Research note

What this ranking means

This page is useful for a current statewide pressure screen. It compares supported Georgia cities by aggregate violent-crime rate before you open the deeper city briefs. Outside Colorado, this remains statewide fallback context rather than local incident-feed depth.

Research note

What this ranking can miss

A current city rate does not tell you whether conditions are improving, how concentrated the pressure is, or which neighborhoods are driving it. Open the city brief and neighborhood pages next.