Greensboro, GA has a B safety grade (68/100) with a violent crime rate of 250 per 100,000, 29% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Greensboro is a small municipal reporter (3,598 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with GA and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Greensboro, GA carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 29% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Greensboro, GA shows violent crime at 250.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 806 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 29% 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.
Small-count caution
Greensboro reported 9 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 3,598. 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Greensboro's 250.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Alpharetta (249.3), Kennesaw (253.3), Hampton (254.2), Manchester (256.3). 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 454.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 250.1 in 2024 (-45.0%). The highest observed value was 454.7 in 2020 and the lowest 122.6 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 23.7% of the 38 Part I offenses reported in Greensboro for 2024, against a median of 12.5% across comparable Georgia cities — a gap of 11.2 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 65.5% of reported property offenses in Greensboro, against a cohort median of 81.3%. The remainder is burglary (4) and motor vehicle theft (6). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
At 250.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Greensboro ranks 78 of 186 — above 108 of the 185 other Georgia cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +25.6% 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 Greensboro'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 9 reported violent incidents in a population of 3,598. 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.
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 6.9 Census sq mi, Greensboro logged 4.2 property and 1.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Greensboro leans on larceny-theft at 50% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,317.
Violent offenses are 24% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Greensboro offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (6.9 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 | 29 | 806 |
| Larceny-Theft | 19 | 528.1 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 6 | 166.8 |
| Burglary | 4 | 111.2 |
| Arson | 1 | 27.8 |
| Violent Crime | 9 | 250.1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 8 | 222.3 |
| Robbery | 1 | 27.8 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 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 | 3,299 | 454.7 | 2425 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 3,262 | 122.6 | 3280.2 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 3,662 | 327.7 | 2048.1 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 3,595 | 222.5 | 1835.9 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 3,598 | 250.1 | 806 |
Greensboro Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Greensboro's 38 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 Greensboro in population. Their populations run from 3,484 to 3,694, against 3,598 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Greensboro sits at 250.1/100K violent (grade B); the Georgia cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Greensboro reported 9 violent crimes and 29 property crimes, for a total of 38 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Greensboro's violent crime rate increased by 12.4%, and the property crime rate decreased by 56.1%.
The most common crime type in Greensboro is larceny-theft, accounting for 50.0% of all reported crimes (19 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Greensboro 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 Greensboro's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Greensboro, GA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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