Canton, GA has a A safety grade (76/100) with a violent crime rate of 171 per 100,000, 52% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Canton (38,085 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then GA and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Canton, GA carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 52% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Canton, GA shows violent crime at 170.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 758.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 52% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade A from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Canton's 170.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Oakwood (170.7), Springfield (171.1), Port Wentworth (169.7), Euharlee (169.4). 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 235.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 170.7 in 2024 (-27.5%). The highest observed value was 235.5 in 2020 and the lowest 97.7 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 18.4% of the 354 Part I offenses reported in Canton for 2024, against a median of 12.5% across comparable Georgia cities — a gap of 5.9 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 90.3% of reported property offenses in Canton, against a cohort median of 81.3%. The remainder is burglary (20) and motor vehicle theft (8). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
At 170.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Canton ranks 104 of 186 — above 82 of the 185 other Georgia cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -15.8% against the cohort median of 202.7. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Property counts dominate Canton'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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 18.6 Census sq mi, Canton logged 15.5 property and 3.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Canton's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (74% of 354 offenses; mix index 5,727).
Violent offenses are 18% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Canton offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (18.6 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 | 289 | 758.8 |
| Larceny-Theft | 261 | 685.3 |
| Burglary | 20 | 52.5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 8 | 21 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 65 | 170.7 |
| Aggravated Assault | 56 | 147 |
| Rape | 7 | 18.4 |
| Robbery | 2 | 5.3 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
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 | 31,416 | 235.5 | 983.6 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 33,386 | 122.8 | 943.5 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 35,813 | 97.7 | 438.4 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 37,067 | 153.8 | 793.2 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 38,085 | 170.7 | 758.8 |
Canton Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Canton's 354 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 Canton in population. Their populations run from 35,138 to 40,820, against 38,085 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Canton sits at 170.7/100K violent (grade A); the Georgia cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Canton at 170.7/100K violent and 758.8/100K property - matched below outside Georgia (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
170.7/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
758.8/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (+11% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Canton reported 65 violent crimes and 289 property crimes, for a total of 354 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Canton's violent crime rate increased by 11%, and the property crime rate decreased by 4.3%.
The most common crime type in Canton is larceny-theft, accounting for 73.7% of all reported crimes (261 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Canton figures are FBI UCR CIUS Table 8 (vintage 2024), population-adjusted per 100,000.
Denominators are the reporting-year population on the municipal row. Incomplete years are dropped from rankings. Confirm at FBI Crime Data Explorer and Census.gov QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (mid-size municipal): figures are informational, not advice. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is the source. Consult a professional before decisions.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Canton's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Canton, GA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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