Cave Spring, GA has a B safety grade (61/100) with a violent crime rate of 331 per 100,000, 6% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small municipal
Cave Spring's UCR row covers a small municipal population (1,210). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to GA and U.S. averages.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Cave Spring, GA carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 6% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Cave Spring, GA shows violent crime at 330.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 743.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 6% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Small-count caution
Cave Spring reported 4 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 1,210. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 30.8% of the 13 Part I offenses reported in Cave Spring for 2024, against a median of 12.5% across comparable Georgia cities — a gap of 18.3 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Cave Spring's 330.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Claxton (329.1), Metter (326.9), McDonough (334.9), Clayton (335.6). 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 330.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Cave Spring ranks 57 of 186 — above 129 of the 185 other Georgia cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +66.0% 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.
Property counts dominate Cave Spring'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.
Based on 4 reported violent incidents in a population of 1,210. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
On a small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
Across 3.7 Census sq mi, Cave Spring logged 2.5 property and 1.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Cave Spring's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (54% of 13 offenses; mix index 4,083).
Violent offenses are 31% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Cave Spring offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (3.7 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 | 9 | 743.8 |
| Larceny-Theft | 7 | 578.5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 2 | 165.3 |
| Burglary | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 4 | 330.6 |
| Aggravated Assault | 4 | 330.6 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 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 | 1,061 | 0 | 1790.8 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 1,065 | 93.9 | 1408.5 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 1,195 | 0 | 2092.1 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 1,201 | 0 | 2164.9 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 1,210 | 330.6 | 743.8 |
Cave Spring Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Cave Spring's 13 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 Cave Spring in population. Their populations run from 968 to 1,431, against 1,210 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
In 2024, Cave Spring reported 4 violent crimes and 9 property crimes, for a total of 13 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Cave Spring's violent crime rate data is unavailable, and the property crime rate decreased by 65.6%.
The most common crime type in Cave Spring is larceny-theft, accounting for 53.8% of all reported crimes (7 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Cave Spring's FBI UCR Table 8 row (2024) is the only source for the rates above.
With a small population base, per-100,000 rates amplify sparse counts. Incomplete submissions are excluded from rankings. See FBI.gov UCR for the raw Table 8 file.
Disclaimer (small municipal): small-base rates are especially easy to misread. Informational only - not advice. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Micro-municipal rate methodology for how Cave Spring's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Cave Spring, 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. Cave Spring is scored as a small municipal UCR reporter (1,210 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.