Duluth, GA has a B safety grade (73/100) with a violent crime rate of 169 per 100,000, 52% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Duluth (32,511 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
Duluth, GA carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 52% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Duluth, GA shows violent crime at 169.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,193.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 52% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Duluth's 169.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Euharlee (169.4), Port Wentworth (169.7), Canton (170.7), Oakwood (170.7). 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 169.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Duluth ranks 107 of 186 — above 79 of the 185 other Georgia cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -16.5% 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-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 89.4% of reported property offenses in Duluth, against a cohort median of 81.3%. The remainder is burglary (22) and motor vehicle theft (19). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 183.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 169.2 in 2024 (-7.9%). The highest observed value was 183.7 in 2020 and the lowest 125.6 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Duluth'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 10.2 Census sq mi, Duluth logged 38.2 property and 5.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Duluth's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (78% of 443 offenses; mix index 6,289).
Violent offenses are only 12% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Duluth offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (10.2 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 388 | 1193.4 |
| Larceny-Theft | 347 | 1067.3 |
| Burglary | 22 | 67.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 19 | 58.4 |
| Arson | 1 | 3.1 |
| Violent Crime | 55 | 169.2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 46 | 141.5 |
| Rape | 6 | 18.5 |
| Robbery | 3 | 9.2 |
| 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 | 29,946 | 183.7 | 1395.8 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 29,986 | 150.1 | 1233.9 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 31,836 | 125.6 | 1228.2 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 32,116 | 158.8 | 1248.6 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 32,511 | 169.2 | 1193.4 |
Duluth Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Duluth's 443 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 Duluth in population. Their populations run from 30,962 to 35,138, against 32,511 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Duluth sits at 169.2/100K violent (grade B); the Georgia cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Duluth at 169.2/100K violent and 1,193.4/100K property - matched below outside Georgia (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
169.2/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,193.4/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (+6.5% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Duluth reported 55 violent crimes and 388 property crimes, for a total of 443 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Duluth's violent crime rate increased by 6.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 4.4%.
The most common crime type in Duluth is larceny-theft, accounting for 78.3% of all reported crimes (347 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Duluth 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 Duluth's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Duluth, 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. Duluth is scored in the mid-size municipal band (32,511 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.