Locust Grove, GA carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 26% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Locust Grove, GA shows violent crime at 258.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,963.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 26% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
C safety grade
258.8/100K violent
2963.8/100K property
-26% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Locust Grove, GA
Comparable rate records
Locust Grove's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Georgia cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Locust Grove's 258.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Manchester (256.3), Cartersville (262.3), Hampton (254.2), Kennesaw (253.3). 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.
Position in the state cohort
Locust Grove sits mid-pack among comparable Georgia cities
At 258.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Locust Grove ranks 74 of 186 — above 112 of the 185 other Georgia cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +29.9% 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.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 8.0% of the 386 Part I offenses reported in Locust Grove for 2024, against a median of 12.5% across comparable Georgia cities — a gap of 4.5 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.
2021–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window close to where it started
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 262.8 per 100,000 in 2021 to 258.8 in 2024 (-1.5%). The highest observed value was 317.5 in 2022 and the lowest 258.8 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Locust Grove'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.
Locust Grove's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 12.3 Census sq mi, Locust Grove logged 28.8 property and 2.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Locust Grove's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (80% of 386 offenses; mix index 6,467).
Violent offenses are only 8% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (12.3 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-16.4%
309.7 → 258.8/100K
Property Crime Rate
-5.9%
3148.7 → 2963.8/100K
Property offenses lead Locust Grove's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs GA
vs US avg
Property Crime
355
2963.8
1567.1
1711
Larceny-Theft
308
2571.4
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
24
200.4
-
-
Burglary
23
192
-
-
Arson
0
0
-
-
Violent Crime
31
258.8
299.6
352
Rape
16
133.6
-
-
Aggravated Assault
10
83.5
-
-
Robbery
5
41.7
-
-
Murder
0
0
-
-
Locust Grove Crime Trend (2020-2024)
The chart omits 2020 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Locust Grove property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Locust Grove Police Department
Reporting agency for Locust Grove NIBRS-participating
Locust Grove Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Locust Grove's 386 reported offenses (4-year span 2021-2024).
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 Locust Grove in population. Their populations run from 10,338 to 12,402, against 11,978 here. Or use our
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Locust Grove at 258.8/100K violent and 2,963.8/100K property - matched below outside Georgia (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Locust Grove reported 31 violent crimes and 355 property crimes, for a total of 386 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Locust Grove?
From 2023 to 2024, Locust Grove's violent crime rate decreased by 16.4%, and the property crime rate decreased by 5.9%.
What is the most common crime in Locust Grove?
The most common crime type in Locust Grove is larceny-theft, accounting for 79.8% of all reported crimes (308 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Locust Grove 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 Locust Grove, GA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.