Garden City, GA has a F safety grade (2/100) with a violent crime rate of 811 per 100,000, 130% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Garden City (10,363 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
Garden City, GA carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 130% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Garden City, GA shows violent crime at 810.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,213.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 130% 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 810.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Garden City ranks 9 of 186 — above 177 of the 185 other Georgia cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +306.9% 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 Garden City's 810.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Albany (823.6), Blakely (791.8), Elberton (787.2), Rome (781.6). 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 1376.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 810.6 in 2024 (-41.1%). The highest observed value was 1607.7 in 2021 and the lowest 804.8 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 20.1% of the 417 Part I offenses reported in Garden City for 2024, against a median of 12.5% across comparable Georgia cities — a gap of 7.6 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 71.2% of reported property offenses in Garden City, against a cohort median of 81.3%. The remainder is burglary (28) and motor vehicle theft (68). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Garden City'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 14.3 Census sq mi, Garden City logged 23.3 property and 5.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Garden City leans on larceny-theft at 57% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,845.
Violent offenses are 20% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Garden City offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (14.3 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 | 333 | 3213.4 |
| Larceny-Theft | 237 | 2287 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 68 | 656.2 |
| Burglary | 28 | 270.2 |
| Arson | 1 | 9.6 |
| Violent Crime | 84 | 810.6 |
| Aggravated Assault | 72 | 694.8 |
| Robbery | 10 | 96.5 |
| Rape | 2 | 19.3 |
| Murder | 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 | 8,716 | 1376.8 | 4658.1 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 9,268 | 1607.7 | 4369.9 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 10,248 | 1034.3 | 3766.6 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 10,438 | 804.8 | 3065.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 10,363 | 810.6 | 3213.4 |
Garden City Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Garden City's 417 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 Garden City in population. Their populations run from 9,762 to 10,837, against 10,363 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Garden City sits at 810.6/100K violent (grade F); the Georgia cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Garden City at 810.6/100K violent and 3,213.4/100K property - matched below outside Georgia (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
810.6/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
3,213.4/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Garden City reported 84 violent crimes and 333 property crimes, for a total of 417 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Garden City's violent crime rate increased by 0.7%, and the property crime rate increased by 4.8%.
The most common crime type in Garden City is larceny-theft, accounting for 56.8% of all reported crimes (237 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Garden City 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 Garden City's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Garden City, GA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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