Milledgeville, GA carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 74% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Milledgeville, GA shows violent crime at 613.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,275.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 74% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
F safety grade
613.4/100K violent
3275.7/100K property
+74% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Milledgeville, GA
Position in the state cohort
Milledgeville reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Georgia cities
At 613.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Milledgeville ranks 22 of 186 — above 164 of the 185 other Georgia cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +207.9% 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.
Comparable rate records
Milledgeville's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Georgia cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Milledgeville's 613.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Columbus (603.8), Chamblee (626.1), LaGrange (630.5), Pelham (586.0). 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 805.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 613.4 in 2024 (-23.8%). The highest observed value was 830.3 in 2022 and the lowest 613.4 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 15.8% of the 634 Part I offenses reported in Milledgeville for 2024, against a median of 12.5% across comparable Georgia cities — a gap of 3.3 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.
Property counts dominate Milledgeville'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.
Milledgeville's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 20.3 Census sq mi, Milledgeville logged 26.4 property and 4.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Milledgeville's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (68% of 634 offenses; mix index 4,953).
Violent offenses are 16% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (20.3 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
-8.2%
3568.9 → 3275.7/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-5%
645.6 → 613.4/100K
Property offenses lead Milledgeville's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs GA
vs US avg
Property Crime
534
3275.7
1567.1
1711
Larceny-Theft
430
2637.7
-
-
Burglary
80
490.7
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
24
147.2
-
-
Arson
4
24.5
-
-
Violent Crime
100
613.4
299.6
352
Aggravated Assault
84
515.3
-
-
Rape
10
61.3
-
-
Robbery
6
36.8
-
-
Murder
0
0
-
-
Milledgeville Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Milledgeville 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
Milledgeville Police Department
Reporting agency for Milledgeville NIBRS-participating
Milledgeville Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Milledgeville's 634 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, Milledgeville reported 100 violent crimes and 534 property crimes, for a total of 634 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Milledgeville?
From 2023 to 2024, Milledgeville's violent crime rate decreased by 5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 8.2%.
What is the most common crime in Milledgeville?
The most common crime type in Milledgeville is larceny-theft, accounting for 67.8% of all reported crimes (430 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Milledgeville 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 Milledgeville, GA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.