Lilburn, GA has a B safety grade (62/100) with a violent crime rate of 177 per 100,000, 50% below the national average.

FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city

Lilburn, GA Crime Rate & Safety

Lilburn (16,426 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

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B
Safety grade
2,276.9
Property / 100K
176.5
Violent / 100K
16K
Population

Lilburn, GA carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 50% below the U.S. average

According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Lilburn, GA shows violent crime at 176.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,276.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 50% 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
  • 176.5/100K violent
  • 2276.9/100K property
  • -50% vs U.S.

What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Lilburn, GA

Small-count caution

The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable

Lilburn reported 29 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 16,426. 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

Lilburn's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Georgia cohort

The nearest comparable 2024 records to Lilburn's 176.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Camilla (177.8), Springfield (171.1), Oakwood (170.7), Canton (170.7). 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

The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower

Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 262.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 176.5 in 2024 (-32.8%). The highest observed value was 262.7 in 2020 and the lowest 147.2 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.

Offense mix

The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort

Violent offenses are 7.2% of the 403 Part I offenses reported in Lilburn for 2024, against a median of 12.5% across comparable Georgia cities — a gap of 5.3 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.

Position in the state cohort

Lilburn sits mid-pack among comparable Georgia cities

At 176.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Lilburn ranks 101 of 186 — above 85 of the 185 other Georgia cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -12.9% 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 counts dominate Lilburn'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 29 reported violent incidents in a population of 16,426. 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.

Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.

Lilburn's 2024 municipal footprint

Across 6.7 Census sq mi, Lilburn logged 55.4 property and 4.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.

Lilburn's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (74% of 403 offenses; mix index 5,681).

Violent offenses are only 7% of the municipal total - a property-led book.

Lilburn offense mix (2024)

Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (6.7 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.

Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)

Violent Crime Rate
+19.9%
147.2 → 176.5/100K
Property Crime Rate
-8.8%
2496.6 → 2276.9/100K

Property offenses lead Lilburn's 2024 record

Offense Count Rate /100K
Property Crime 374 2276.9
Larceny-Theft 298 1814.2
Burglary 47 286.1
Motor Vehicle Theft 29 176.5
Arson 0 0
Violent Crime 29 176.5
Aggravated Assault 18 109.6
Robbery 9 54.8
Murder 1 6.1
Rape 1 6.1

Lilburn Crime Trend (2020-2024)

Lilburn property crime rate trend

Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR

Property crime rate (2024)
2,276.9/100K 8.8% vs 2023
2,0002,2002,4002,6002,800 20202021202220232024 2,277

Lilburn violent crime rate trend

Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR

Violent crime rate (2024)
176.5/100K 19.9% vs 2023
100150200250300 20202021202220232024 177
Year Coverage Population Violent Rate Property Rate
2020 Comparable 12,941 262.7 2171.4
2021 Comparable 13,199 197 2644.1
2022 Comparable 15,823 227.5 2186.7
2023 Comparable 16,302 147.2 2496.6
2024 Comparable 16,426 176.5 2276.9

How Lilburn sits among GA peers

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Lilburn vs. similar-size GA cities, violent vs. property crime. X axis violent crime per 100K, Y axis property crime per 100K, split by the national averages. 9 cities; the anchor is ringed. Lilburn vs. similar-size GA cities, violent vs. property crime 32 1,786 Violent crime per 100K → 411 4,246 Property crime per 100K → Lilburn SAFEST HIGHEST CRIME Safety grade A / B C D / F
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages

Lilburn Police Department

Reporting agency for Lilburn NIBRS-participating

Lilburn Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Lilburn's 403 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 Lilburn in population. Their populations run from 15,541 to 17,366, against 16,426 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.

Lilburn's closest GA violent-rate matches

Lilburn sits at 176.5/100K violent (grade B); the Georgia cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.

Out-of-state peers for Lilburn

Lilburn at 176.5/100K violent and 2,276.9/100K property - matched below outside Georgia (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).

More about Lilburn's 2024 record

How many crimes were reported in Lilburn?

In 2024, Lilburn reported 29 violent crimes and 374 property crimes, for a total of 403 reported offenses.

Is crime increasing or decreasing in Lilburn?

From 2023 to 2024, Lilburn's violent crime rate increased by 19.9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 8.8%.

What is the most common crime in Lilburn?

The most common crime type in Lilburn is larceny-theft, accounting for 73.9% of all reported crimes (298 incidents in 2024).

Mid-size read: Lilburn 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.

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Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Lilburn, GA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.

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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Lilburn is scored in the mid-size municipal band (16,426 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.