Marietta, GA has a C safety grade (54/100) with a violent crime rate of 298 per 100,000, 15% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Marietta, GA Crime Rate & Safety
At 63,354 residents, Marietta is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against GA and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Marietta, GA carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 15% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Marietta, GA shows violent crime at 298.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,810.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 15% 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
298.3/100K violent
1810.5/100K property
-15% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Marietta, GA
Comparable rate records
Marietta's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Georgia cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Marietta's 298.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Summerville (293.7), Thomaston (303.2), Rockmart (303.4), Brookhaven (303.5). 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 489.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 298.3 in 2024 (-39.0%). The highest observed value was 489.0 in 2020 and the lowest 298.3 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
Marietta sits mid-pack among comparable Georgia cities
At 298.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Marietta ranks 66 of 186 — above 120 of the 185 other Georgia cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +49.8% 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 Marietta'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.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Marietta's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 23.8 Census sq mi, Marietta logged 48.2 property and 7.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Marietta's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (67% of 1,336 offenses; mix index 4,801).
Violent offenses are only 14% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (23.8 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Both rates shifted (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-17%
359.6 → 298.3/100K
Property Crime Rate
-17.9%
2204.8 → 1810.5/100K
Property offenses lead Marietta's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs GA
Property Crime
1,147
1810.5
1567.1
Larceny-Theft
897
1415.9
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
135
213.1
-
Burglary
115
181.5
-
Arson
3
4.7
-
Violent Crime
189
298.3
299.6
Aggravated Assault
141
222.6
-
Robbery
25
39.5
-
Rape
17
26.8
-
Murder
6
9.5
-
Marietta Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Marietta 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
Marietta Police Department
Reporting agency for Marietta NIBRS-participating
Marietta Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Marietta's 1,336 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
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In 2024, Marietta reported 189 violent crimes and 1,147 property crimes, for a total of 1,336 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Marietta?
From 2023 to 2024, Marietta's violent crime rate decreased by 17%, and the property crime rate decreased by 17.9%.
What is the most common crime in Marietta?
The most common crime type in Marietta is larceny-theft, accounting for 67.1% of all reported crimes (897 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Marietta's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Marietta, GA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.