Dunwoody, GA has a C safety grade (49/100) with a violent crime rate of 224 per 100,000, 36% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
At 51,752 residents, Dunwoody is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against GA and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Dunwoody, GA carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 36% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Dunwoody, GA shows violent crime at 224.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,273.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 36% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C 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 Dunwoody's 224.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Toccoa (224.6), Omega (227.3), Smyrna (227.5), Hiram (218.5). 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 167.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 224.1 in 2024 (+34.2%). The highest observed value was 248.7 in 2022 and the lowest 167.0 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 6.4% of the 1,810 Part I offenses reported in Dunwoody for 2024, against a median of 12.5% across comparable Georgia cities — a gap of 6.1 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 224.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Dunwoody ranks 85 of 186 — above 101 of the 185 other Georgia cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +12.5% 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 Dunwoody'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.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Across 13 Census sq mi, Dunwoody logged 130.4 property and 8.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Dunwoody's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (82% of 1,810 offenses; mix index 6,829).
Violent offenses are only 6% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Dunwoody offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (13 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 | 1,694 | 3273.3 |
| Larceny-Theft | 1,486 | 2871.4 |
| Burglary | 108 | 208.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 100 | 193.2 |
| Arson | 1 | 1.9 |
| Violent Crime | 116 | 224.1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 81 | 156.5 |
| Robbery | 26 | 50.2 |
| Rape | 8 | 15.5 |
| Murder | 1 | 1.9 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 49,687 | 167 | 2805.6 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 49,621 | 211.6 | 2827.4 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 50,271 | 248.7 | 2960 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 52,505 | 219 | 3533 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 51,752 | 224.1 | 3273.3 |
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Georgia cities closest to Dunwoody in population. Their populations run from 40,595 to 58,329, against 51,752 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Dunwoody sits at 224.1/100K violent (grade C); the Georgia cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Dunwoody at 224.1/100K violent and 3,273.3/100K property - matched below outside Georgia (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
224.1/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
3,273.3/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (+2.3% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Dunwoody reported 116 violent crimes and 1,694 property crimes, for a total of 1,810 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Dunwoody's violent crime rate increased by 2.3%, and the property crime rate decreased by 7.4%.
The most common crime type in Dunwoody is larceny-theft, accounting for 82.1% of all reported crimes (1,486 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Dunwoody's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Large-city rate methodology for how Dunwoody's large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Dunwoody, GA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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