College Park, GA carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 294% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, College Park, GA shows violent crime at 1,386.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 7,344.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 294% 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.
F safety grade
1386.9/100K violent
7344.1/100K property
+294% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for College Park, GA
Position in the state cohort
College Park reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Georgia cities
At 1386.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, College Park ranks 2 of 186 — above 184 of the 185 other Georgia cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +596.2% 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
College Park's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Georgia cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to College Park's 1386.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are East Point (1203.5), Moultrie (1161.8), Americus (1653.7), Cordele (1106.3). 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
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 1756.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 1386.9 in 2024 (-21.0%). The highest observed value was 1955.3 in 2021 and the lowest 1386.9 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 72.9% of reported property offenses in College Park, against a cohort median of 81.3%. The remainder is burglary (95) and motor vehicle theft (182). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 15.9% of the 1,215 Part I offenses reported in College Park for 2024, against a median of 12.5% across comparable Georgia cities — a gap of 3.4 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.
Property counts dominate College Park'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.
College Park's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 11.2 Census sq mi, College Park logged 91.5 property and 17.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
College Park's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (61% of 1,215 offenses; mix index 4,190).
Violent offenses are 16% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (11.2 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-21.7%
1770.7 → 1386.9/100K
Property Crime Rate
-6.8%
7878.7 → 7344.1/100K
Property offenses lead College Park's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs GA
vs US avg
Property Crime
1,022
7344.1
1567.1
1711
Larceny-Theft
745
5353.5
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
182
1307.8
-
-
Burglary
95
682.7
-
-
Arson
0
0
-
-
Violent Crime
193
1386.9
299.6
352
Aggravated Assault
142
1020.4
-
-
Robbery
33
237.1
-
-
Murder
9
64.7
-
-
Rape
9
64.7
-
-
College Park Crime Trend (2020-2024)
College Park property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
College Park Police Department
Reporting agency for College Park NIBRS-participating
College Park Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind College Park's 1,215 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.
Similar-Size Cities in Georgia
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Georgia cities closest to College Park in population. Their populations run from 11,978 to 15,541, against 13,916 here. Or use our
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College Park at 1,386.9/100K violent and 7,344.1/100K property - matched below outside Georgia (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, College Park reported 193 violent crimes and 1,022 property crimes, for a total of 1,215 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in College Park?
From 2023 to 2024, College Park's violent crime rate decreased by 21.7%, and the property crime rate decreased by 6.8%.
What is the most common crime in College Park?
The most common crime type in College Park is larceny-theft, accounting for 61.3% of all reported crimes (745 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: College Park 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 College Park, GA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.