Elberton, GA has a F safety grade (8/100) with a violent crime rate of 787 per 100,000, 124% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Elberton is a small municipal reporter (4,827 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with GA and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Elberton, GA carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 124% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Elberton, GA shows violent crime at 787.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,527.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 124% 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 787.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Elberton ranks 11 of 186 — above 175 of the 185 other Georgia cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +295.2% 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 Elberton's 787.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Blakely (791.8), Rome (781.6), Garden City (810.6), Albany (823.6). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 23.8% of the 160 Part I offenses reported in Elberton for 2024, against a median of 12.5% across comparable Georgia cities — a gap of 11.3 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 952.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 787.2 in 2024 (-17.4%). The highest observed value was 970.4 in 2021 and the lowest 575.2 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Elberton'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.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Across 4.8 Census sq mi, Elberton logged 25.3 property and 7.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Elberton's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (60% of 160 offenses; mix index 4,227).
Violent offenses are 24% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Elberton offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (4.8 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 | 122 | 2527.4 |
| Larceny-Theft | 96 | 1988.8 |
| Burglary | 17 | 352.2 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 9 | 186.5 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 38 | 787.2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 35 | 725.1 |
| Rape | 3 | 62.2 |
| Murder | 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 | 4,303 | 952.8 | 3695.1 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 4,328 | 970.4 | 3720 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 4,719 | 847.6 | 3030.3 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 4,868 | 575.2 | 1931 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 4,827 | 787.2 | 2527.4 |
Elberton Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Elberton's 160 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 Elberton in population. Their populations run from 4,664 to 5,063, against 4,827 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Elberton sits at 787.2/100K violent (grade F); the Georgia cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Elberton reported 38 violent crimes and 122 property crimes, for a total of 160 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Elberton's violent crime rate increased by 36.9%, and the property crime rate increased by 30.9%.
The most common crime type in Elberton is larceny-theft, accounting for 60.0% of all reported crimes (96 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Elberton is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how Elberton's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Elberton, GA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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