East Point, GA has a F safety grade (0/100) with a violent crime rate of 1204 per 100,000, 242% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
East Point (38,222 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
East Point, GA carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 242% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, East Point, GA shows violent crime at 1,203.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 6,666.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 242% 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.
2022–2024 direction
Across 3 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 84.0 per 100,000 in 2022 to 1203.5 in 2024 (+1332.2%). The highest observed value was 1203.5 in 2024 and the lowest 84.0 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 1203.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, East Point ranks 3 of 186 — above 183 of the 185 other Georgia cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +504.2% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to East Point's 1203.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Moultrie (1161.8), Cordele (1106.3), Waycross (1033.4), College Park (1386.9). 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 72.3% of reported property offenses in East Point, against a cohort median of 81.3%. The remainder is burglary (266) and motor vehicle theft (441). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate East Point'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 14.7 Census sq mi, East Point logged 172.9 property and 31.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
East Point's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (61% of 3,008 offenses; mix index 4,157).
Violent offenses are 15% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
East Point offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (14.7 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 | 2,548 | 6666.3 |
| Larceny-Theft | 1,841 | 4816.6 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 441 | 1153.8 |
| Burglary | 266 | 695.9 |
| Arson | 2 | 5.2 |
| Violent Crime | 460 | 1203.5 |
| Aggravated Assault | 309 | 808.4 |
| Robbery | 100 | 261.6 |
| Murder | 30 | 78.5 |
| Rape | 21 | 54.9 |
The chart omits 2020, 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · rose across 3 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2022-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Insufficient reporting | 34,997 | - | - |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 35,156 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 38,080 | 84 | 2.6 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 38,493 | 90.9 | 678 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 38,222 | 1203.5 | 6666.3 |
East Point Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind East Point's 3,008 reported offenses (3-year span 2022-2024).
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 Point in population. Their populations run from 35,138 to 40,820, against 38,222 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
East Point sits at 1,203.5/100K violent (grade F); the Georgia cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
East Point at 1,203.5/100K violent and 6,666.3/100K property - matched below outside Georgia (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
1,203.5/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
6,666.3/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (+1224% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, East Point reported 460 violent crimes and 2,548 property crimes, for a total of 3,008 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, East Point's violent crime rate increased by 1224%, and the property crime rate increased by 883.2%.
The most common crime type in East Point is larceny-theft, accounting for 61.2% of all reported crimes (1,841 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: East Point 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 East Point's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 East Point, GA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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