Cordele, GA has a F safety grade (0/100) with a violent crime rate of 1106 per 100,000, 214% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Cordele is a small municipal reporter (9,762 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with GA and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Cordele, GA carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 214% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Cordele, GA shows violent crime at 1,106.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 4,220.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 214% 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 1106.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Cordele ranks 5 of 186 — above 181 of the 185 other Georgia cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +455.4% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 688.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 1106.3 in 2024 (+60.6%). The highest observed value was 1757.3 in 2023 and the lowest 688.9 in 2020. 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 Cordele's 1106.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Moultrie (1161.8), Waycross (1033.4), East Point (1203.5), Griffin (965.4). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 20.8% of the 520 Part I offenses reported in Cordele for 2024, against a median of 12.5% across comparable Georgia cities — a gap of 8.3 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.
Property counts dominate Cordele'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 10.4 Census sq mi, Cordele logged 39.5 property and 10.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Cordele's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (62% of 520 offenses; mix index 4,267).
Violent offenses are 21% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Cordele offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (10.4 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 | 412 | 4220.4 |
| Larceny-Theft | 321 | 3288.3 |
| Burglary | 47 | 481.5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 44 | 450.7 |
| Arson | 3 | 30.7 |
| Violent Crime | 108 | 1106.3 |
| Aggravated Assault | 89 | 911.7 |
| Robbery | 16 | 163.9 |
| Rape | 2 | 20.5 |
| Murder | 1 | 10.2 |
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 | 10,451 | 688.9 | 5042.6 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 10,223 | 997.8 | 3942.1 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 9,929 | 1712.2 | 4874.6 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 9,788 | 1757.3 | 4771.1 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 9,762 | 1106.3 | 4220.4 |
Cordele Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Cordele's 520 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 Cordele in population. Their populations run from 8,922 to 10,527, against 9,762 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Cordele sits at 1,106.3/100K violent (grade F); the Georgia cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Cordele reported 108 violent crimes and 412 property crimes, for a total of 520 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Cordele's violent crime rate decreased by 37%, and the property crime rate decreased by 11.5%.
The most common crime type in Cordele is larceny-theft, accounting for 61.7% of all reported crimes (321 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Cordele 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 Cordele's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Cordele, 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. Cordele is scored as a small-city UCR reporter (9,762 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.