Douglasville, GA carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 51% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Douglasville, GA shows violent crime at 532.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 4,636 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 51% 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
532.1/100K violent
4636/100K property
+51% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Douglasville, GA
Comparable rate records
Douglasville's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Georgia cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Douglasville's 532.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Stone Mountain (538.0), Millen (540.2), Alma (544.7), Hazlehurst (516.5). 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
Douglasville reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Georgia cities
At 532.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Douglasville ranks 35 of 186 — above 151 of the 185 other Georgia cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +167.1% 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
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 566.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 532.1 in 2024 (-6.1%). The highest observed value was 657.8 in 2022 and the lowest 466.5 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Douglasville'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.
Douglasville's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 22.9 Census sq mi, Douglasville logged 82.1 property and 9.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Douglasville's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (78% of 2,098 offenses; mix index 6,280).
Violent offenses are only 10% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (22.9 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
+14.1%
466.5 → 532.1/100K
Property Crime Rate
-2.9%
4776 → 4636/100K
Property offenses lead Douglasville's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs GA
vs US avg
Property Crime
1,882
4636
1567.1
1711
Larceny-Theft
1,644
4049.8
-
-
Burglary
178
438.5
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
60
147.8
-
-
Arson
1
2.5
-
-
Violent Crime
216
532.1
299.6
352
Aggravated Assault
156
384.3
-
-
Rape
30
73.9
-
-
Robbery
27
66.5
-
-
Murder
3
7.4
-
-
Douglasville Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Douglasville property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Douglasville Police Department
Reporting agency for Douglasville NIBRS-participating
Douglasville Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Douglasville's 2,098 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 Douglasville in population. Their populations run from 36,562 to 45,655, against 40,595 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Douglasville reported 216 violent crimes and 1,882 property crimes, for a total of 2,098 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Douglasville?
From 2023 to 2024, Douglasville's violent crime rate increased by 14.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 2.9%.
What is the most common crime in Douglasville?
The most common crime type in Douglasville is larceny-theft, accounting for 78.4% of all reported crimes (1,644 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Douglasville 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 Douglasville, GA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.