Sandy Springs, GA has a B safety grade (73/100) with a violent crime rate of 139 per 100,000, 60% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Sandy Springs, GA Crime Rate & Safety
At 105,580 residents, Sandy Springs 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.
Sandy Springs, GA carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 60% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Sandy Springs, GA shows violent crime at 139.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,460.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 60% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
B safety grade
139.2/100K violent
1460.5/100K property
-60% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Sandy Springs, GA
Comparable rate records
Sandy Springs's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Georgia cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Sandy Springs's 139.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Donalsonville (141.7), Madison (135.8), Decatur (132.7), Kingsland (147.2). 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
Sandy Springs sits mid-pack among comparable Georgia cities
At 139.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Sandy Springs ranks 119 of 186 — above 67 of the 185 other Georgia cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -31.3% against the cohort median of 202.7. 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 8.7% of the 1,689 Part I offenses reported in Sandy Springs for 2024, against a median of 12.5% across comparable Georgia cities — a gap of 3.8 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 152.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 139.2 in 2024 (-8.9%). The highest observed value was 189.2 in 2021 and the lowest 139.2 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Sandy Springs'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.
Sandy Springs's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 37.7 Census sq mi, Sandy Springs logged 40.9 property and 3.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Sandy Springs's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (70% of 1,689 offenses; mix index 5,173).
Violent offenses are only 9% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (37.7 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
-15.1%
1721.1 → 1460.5/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-6.1%
148.3 → 139.2/100K
Property offenses lead Sandy Springs's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
1,542
1460.5
1711
Larceny-Theft
1,182
1119.5
-
Burglary
209
198
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
151
143
-
Arson
1
0.9
-
Violent Crime
147
139.2
352
Aggravated Assault
106
100.4
-
Rape
24
22.7
-
Robbery
16
15.2
-
Murder
1
0.9
-
Sandy Springs Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Sandy Springs property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Sandy Springs Police Department
Reporting agency for Sandy Springs NIBRS-participating
Sandy Springs Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Sandy Springs's 1,689 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
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Georgia cities closest to Sandy Springs in population. Their populations run from 63,354 to 129,765, against 105,580 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Sandy Springs reported 147 violent crimes and 1,542 property crimes, for a total of 1,689 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Sandy Springs?
From 2023 to 2024, Sandy Springs's violent crime rate decreased by 6.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 15.1%.
What is the most common crime in Sandy Springs?
The most common crime type in Sandy Springs is larceny-theft, accounting for 70.0% of all reported crimes (1,182 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Sandy Springs'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 Sandy Springs, GA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.