Pendergrass, GA has a A safety grade (76/100) with a violent crime rate of 218 per 100,000, 38% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small municipal
Pendergrass's UCR row covers a small municipal population (1,839). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to GA and U.S. averages.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Pendergrass, GA carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 38% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Pendergrass, GA shows violent crime at 217.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 271.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 38% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade A from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Small-count caution
Pendergrass reported 4 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 1,839. 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 44.4% of the 9 Part I offenses reported in Pendergrass for 2024, against a median of 12.5% across comparable Georgia cities — a gap of 31.9 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Pendergrass's 217.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Hogansville (216.9), Hiram (218.5), Dunwoody (224.1), Toccoa (224.6). 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 60.0% of reported property offenses in Pendergrass, against a cohort median of 81.3%. The remainder is burglary (1) and motor vehicle theft (1). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
At 217.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Pendergrass ranks 87 of 186 — above 99 of the 185 other Georgia cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +9.2% 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.
Pendergrass's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row keeps violent and property totals in a closer balance. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Based on 4 reported violent incidents in a population of 1,839. 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.
On a small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
Across 3.8 Census sq mi, Pendergrass logged 1.3 property and 1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Pendergrass leans on aggravated assault at 44% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,333.
Violent offenses are 44% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a small municipal.
Pendergrass offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (3.8 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 5 | 271.9 |
| Larceny-Theft | 3 | 163.1 |
| Burglary | 1 | 54.4 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 1 | 54.4 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 4 | 217.5 |
| Aggravated Assault | 4 | 217.5 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 576 | 0 | 694.4 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 593 | 0 | 505.9 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 1,779 | 0 | 674.5 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 1,786 | 0 | 1007.8 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 1,839 | 217.5 | 271.9 |
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Georgia cities closest to Pendergrass in population. Their populations run from 1,680 to 2,086, against 1,839 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
In 2024, Pendergrass reported 4 violent crimes and 5 property crimes, for a total of 9 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Pendergrass's violent crime rate data is unavailable, and the property crime rate decreased by 73%.
The most common crime type in Pendergrass is aggravated assault, accounting for 44.4% of all reported crimes (4 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Pendergrass's FBI UCR Table 8 row (2024) is the only source for the rates above.
With a small population base, per-100,000 rates amplify sparse counts. Incomplete submissions are excluded from rankings. See FBI.gov UCR for the raw Table 8 file.
Disclaimer (small municipal): small-base rates are especially easy to misread. Informational only - not advice. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Micro-municipal rate methodology for how Pendergrass's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Pendergrass, 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. Pendergrass is scored as a small municipal UCR reporter (1,839 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.