East Ellijay, GA has a C safety grade (54/100) with a violent crime rate of 278 per 100,000, 21% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small municipal
East Ellijay's UCR row covers a small municipal population (1,799). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to GA and U.S. averages.
Data updated 2026-08-24
East Ellijay, GA carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 21% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, East Ellijay, GA shows violent crime at 277.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,112.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 21% 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.
Small-count caution
East Ellijay reported 5 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 1,799. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 700.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 277.9 in 2024 (-60.3%). The highest observed value was 700.5 in 2020 and the lowest 174.5 in 2021. 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 East Ellijay's 277.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Norcross (280.0), Doerun (280.9), Ocilla (286.6), St. Marys (291.7). 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 94.7% of reported property offenses in East Ellijay, against a cohort median of 81.3%. The remainder is burglary (1) and motor vehicle theft (1). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
At 277.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, East Ellijay ranks 72 of 186 — above 114 of the 185 other Georgia cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +39.5% 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 East Ellijay'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.
Based on 5 reported violent incidents in a population of 1,799. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
On a small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
Across 3.3 Census sq mi, East Ellijay logged 11.6 property and 1.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
East Ellijay's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (84% of 43 offenses; mix index 7,155).
Violent offenses are only 12% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
East Ellijay offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (3.3 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 | 38 | 2112.3 |
| Larceny-Theft | 36 | 2001.1 |
| Burglary | 1 | 55.6 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 1 | 55.6 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 5 | 277.9 |
| Aggravated Assault | 5 | 277.9 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 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 | 571 | 700.5 | 8406.3 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 573 | 174.5 | 8202.4 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 1,135 | 176.2 | 6872.2 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 1,448 | 345.3 | 5386.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 1,799 | 277.9 | 2112.3 |
East Ellijay Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind East Ellijay's 43 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 East Ellijay in population. Their populations run from 1,547 to 2,054, against 1,799 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
East Ellijay sits at 277.9/100K violent (grade C); the Georgia cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, East Ellijay reported 5 violent crimes and 38 property crimes, for a total of 43 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, East Ellijay's violent crime rate decreased by 19.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 60.8%.
The most common crime type in East Ellijay is larceny-theft, accounting for 83.7% of all reported crimes (36 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: East Ellijay's FBI UCR Table 8 row (2024) is the only source for the rates above.
With a small population base, per-100,000 rates amplify sparse counts. Incomplete submissions are excluded from rankings. See FBI.gov UCR for the raw Table 8 file.
Disclaimer (small municipal): small-base rates are especially easy to misread. Informational only - not advice. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Micro-municipal rate methodology for how East Ellijay's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 East Ellijay, GA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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