Albany, GA has a F safety grade (16/100) with a violent crime rate of 824 per 100,000, 134% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
At 66,169 residents, Albany is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against GA and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Albany, GA carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 134% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Albany, GA shows violent crime at 823.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,608 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 134% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Position in the state cohort
At 823.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Albany ranks 8 of 186 — above 178 of the 185 other Georgia cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +313.5% against the cohort median of 199.2. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 33.9% of the 1,609 Part I offenses reported in Albany for 2024, against a median of 12.5% across comparable Georgia cities — a gap of 21.4 points. Offense mix is shaped by which agencies report and how incidents are classified as well as by the underlying offenses, so it describes the reported record rather than a settled difference in conditions.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 1722.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 823.6 in 2024 (-52.2%). The highest observed value was 1722.9 in 2020 and the lowest 336.7 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Albany's 823.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Garden City (810.6), Blakely (791.8), Elberton (787.2), Rome (781.6). These are same-year agency submissions that pass the same completeness screen, not a claim that the cities have identical conditions. They make the cohort position above checkable against named records instead of a generic state average.
Property counts dominate Albany's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; cities that fail the completeness test stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Across 55.1 Census sq mi, Albany logged 19.3 property and 9.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Albany leans on larceny-theft at 51% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,511.
Violent offenses are 34% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Albany offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (55.1 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 1,064 | 1608 |
| Larceny-Theft | 818 | 1236.2 |
| Burglary | 136 | 205.5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 110 | 166.2 |
| Arson | 7 | 10.6 |
| Violent Crime | 545 | 823.6 |
| Aggravated Assault | 454 | 686.1 |
| Rape | 39 | 58.9 |
| Robbery | 35 | 52.9 |
| Murder | 17 | 25.7 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 71,567 | 1722.9 | 4419.6 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 70,214 | 1588 | 4269.8 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 68,613 | 336.7 | 1254.9 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 66,281 | 1000.3 | 2346.1 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 66,169 | 823.6 | 1608 |
Albany Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Albany's 1,609 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
This agency reports via NIBRS, the incident-based system that captures more detail per offense (multiple crimes per incident, victim/offender data) than the older summary counts.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Georgia cities closest to Albany in population. Their populations run from 48,944 to 81,056, against 66,169 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Albany sits at 823.6/100K violent (grade F); the Georgia cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Albany at 823.6/100K violent and 1,608/100K property - matched below outside Georgia (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
823.6/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,608/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-17.7% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Albany reported 545 violent crimes and 1,064 property crimes, for a total of 1,609 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Albany's violent crime rate decreased by 17.7%, and the property crime rate decreased by 31.5%.
The most common crime type in Albany is larceny-theft, accounting for 50.8% of all reported crimes (818 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Albany's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Large-city rate methodology for how Albany's large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Albany, GA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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