Fayetteville, GA carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 56% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Fayetteville, GA shows violent crime at 156.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,542.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 56% 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.
B safety grade
156.5/100K violent
2542.7/100K property
-56% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Fayetteville, GA
Comparable rate records
Fayetteville's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Georgia cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Fayetteville's 156.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Carrollton (156.5), Bloomingdale (155.3), Perry (155.0), Byron (159.3). 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
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 5.8% of the 552 Part I offenses reported in Fayetteville for 2024, against a median of 12.5% across comparable Georgia cities — a gap of 6.7 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
Fayetteville sits mid-pack among comparable Georgia cities
At 156.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Fayetteville ranks 111 of 186 — above 75 of the 185 other Georgia cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -22.8% 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 dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 91.3% of reported property offenses in Fayetteville, against a cohort median of 81.3%. The remainder is burglary (24) and motor vehicle theft (21). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 142.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 156.5 in 2024 (+9.5%). The highest observed value was 167.1 in 2021 and the lowest 104.8 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Fayetteville'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.
Fayetteville's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 13 Census sq mi, Fayetteville logged 40.1 property and 2.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Fayetteville's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (86% of 552 offenses; mix index 7,453).
Violent offenses are only 6% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
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.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
+49.3%
104.8 → 156.5/100K
Property Crime Rate
-3.9%
2645.8 → 2542.7/100K
Property offenses lead Fayetteville's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs GA
vs US avg
Property Crime
520
2542.7
1567.1
1711
Larceny-Theft
475
2322.6
-
-
Burglary
24
117.4
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
21
102.7
-
-
Arson
1
4.9
-
-
Violent Crime
32
156.5
299.6
352
Aggravated Assault
19
92.9
-
-
Rape
9
44
-
-
Murder
2
9.8
-
-
Robbery
2
9.8
-
-
Fayetteville Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Fayetteville property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Fayetteville Police Department
Reporting agency for Fayetteville NIBRS-participating
Fayetteville Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Fayetteville's 552 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.
Similar-Size Cities in Georgia
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Georgia cities closest to Fayetteville in population. Their populations run from 19,051 to 22,364, against 20,451 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Fayetteville reported 32 violent crimes and 520 property crimes, for a total of 552 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Fayetteville?
From 2023 to 2024, Fayetteville's violent crime rate increased by 49.3%, and the property crime rate decreased by 3.9%.
What is the most common crime in Fayetteville?
The most common crime type in Fayetteville is larceny-theft, accounting for 86.1% of all reported crimes (475 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Fayetteville 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Fayetteville, GA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.