Blakely, GA has a F safety grade (12/100) with a violent crime rate of 792 per 100,000, 125% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Blakely is a small municipal reporter (5,178 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with GA and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Blakely, GA carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 125% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Blakely, GA shows violent crime at 791.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,085.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 125% 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 791.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Blakely ranks 10 of 186 — above 176 of the 185 other Georgia cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +297.5% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Blakely's 791.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Elberton (787.2), Rome (781.6), Garden City (810.6), Albany (823.6). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 27.5% of the 149 Part I offenses reported in Blakely for 2024, against a median of 12.5% across comparable Georgia cities — a gap of 15.0 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 70.4% of reported property offenses in Blakely, against a cohort median of 81.3%. The remainder is burglary (25) and motor vehicle theft (7). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 774.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 791.8 in 2024 (+2.3%). The highest observed value was 1556.7 in 2022 and the lowest 774.2 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Blakely'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.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Across 17.6 Census sq mi, Blakely logged 6.2 property and 2.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Blakely leans on larceny-theft at 51% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,558.
Violent offenses are 28% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Blakely offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (17.6 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 | 108 | 2085.7 |
| Larceny-Theft | 76 | 1467.7 |
| Burglary | 25 | 482.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 7 | 135.2 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 41 | 791.8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 38 | 733.9 |
| Rape | 2 | 38.6 |
| Murder | 1 | 19.3 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 4,521 | 774.2 | 4158.4 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 4,439 | 1058.8 | 2095.1 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 5,139 | 1556.7 | 2062.7 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 5,186 | 1349.8 | 2526 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 5,178 | 791.8 | 2085.7 |
Blakely Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Blakely's 149 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 Blakely in population. Their populations run from 4,949 to 5,379, against 5,178 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Blakely sits at 791.8/100K violent (grade F); the Georgia cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Blakely reported 41 violent crimes and 108 property crimes, for a total of 149 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Blakely's violent crime rate decreased by 41.3%, and the property crime rate decreased by 17.4%.
The most common crime type in Blakely is larceny-theft, accounting for 51.0% of all reported crimes (76 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Blakely is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how Blakely's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Blakely, GA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Blakely is scored as a small-city UCR reporter (5,178 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.