McRae-Helena, GA has a C safety grade (52/100) with a violent crime rate of 388 per 100,000, 10% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
McRae-Helena is a small municipal reporter (4,378 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with GA and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
McRae-Helena, GA carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 10% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, McRae-Helena, GA shows violent crime at 388.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,096.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 10% above 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.
Small-count caution
McRae-Helena reported 17 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 4,378. 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 McRae-Helena's 388.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Stockbridge (384.7), Fitzgerald (392.3), Pine Mountain (384.3), Coolidge (377.4). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 26.2% of the 65 Part I offenses reported in McRae-Helena for 2024, against a median of 12.5% across comparable Georgia cities — a gap of 13.7 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
At 388.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, McRae-Helena ranks 47 of 186 — above 139 of the 185 other Georgia cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +94.9% 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 62.5% of reported property offenses in McRae-Helena, against a cohort median of 81.3%. The remainder is burglary (17) and motor vehicle theft (1). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate McRae-Helena'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 17 reported violent incidents in a population of 4,378. 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 6.4 Census sq mi, McRae-Helena logged 7.5 property and 2.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
McRae-Helena leans on larceny-theft at 46% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,510.
Violent offenses are 26% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
McRae-Helena offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (6.4 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 | 48 | 1096.4 |
| Larceny-Theft | 30 | 685.2 |
| Burglary | 17 | 388.3 |
| Arson | 2 | 45.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 1 | 22.8 |
| Violent Crime | 17 | 388.3 |
| Aggravated Assault | 17 | 388.3 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Georgia cities closest to McRae-Helena in population. Their populations run from 3,977 to 4,738, against 4,378 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
McRae-Helena sits at 388.3/100K violent (grade C); the Georgia cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, McRae-Helena reported 17 violent crimes and 48 property crimes, for a total of 65 reported offenses.
The most common crime type in McRae-Helena is larceny-theft, accounting for 46.2% of all reported crimes (30 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: McRae-Helena 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 McRae-Helena's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 McRae-Helena, GA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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