Savannah, GA has a C safety grade (46/100) with a violent crime rate of 402 per 100,000, 14% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2022 · per-capita rates · large city
At 239,089 residents, Savannah 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.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Savannah, GA carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 14% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2022, Savannah, GA shows violent crime at 402.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,632.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 14% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2022 records to Savannah's 402.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Dawson (402.0), Warwick (403.2), Stone Mountain (412.8), Nashville (414.1). 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
At 402.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2022, Savannah ranks 51 of 185 — above 134 of the 184 other Georgia cities whose 2022 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +72.1% against the cohort median of 233.8. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 19.8% of the 4,866 Part I offenses reported in Savannah for 2022, against a median of 12.6% across comparable Georgia cities — a gap of 7.2 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 Savannah'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.
Across 109.4 Census sq mi, Savannah logged 35.7 property and 8.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2022.
Violent offenses are 20% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (109.4 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 | 3,904 | 1632.9 |
| Burglary | - | - |
| Larceny-Theft | - | - |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | - | - |
| Arson | - | - |
| Violent Crime | 962 | 402.4 |
| Murder | - | - |
| Rape | - | - |
| Robbery | - | - |
| Aggravated Assault | - | - |
The chart omits 2020, 2023, 2024 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · fell across 2 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2021-2022 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Insufficient reporting | 237,691 | - | - |
| 2021 | Comparable | 235,950 | 439.1 | 2126.7 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 239,089 | 402.4 | 1632.9 |
| 2023 | Insufficient reporting | 241,771 | - | - |
| 2024 | Insufficient reporting | 241,780 | - | - |
Savannah Police Department filed the 2022 UCR row behind Savannah's 4,866 reported offenses (2-year span 2021-2022).
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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Georgia cities closest to Savannah in population. Their populations run from 67,788 to 201,061, against 241,780 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Savannah sits at 402.4/100K violent (grade C); the Georgia cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2022, Savannah reported 962 violent crimes and 3,904 property crimes, for a total of 4,866 reported offenses.
Large-city read: Savannah's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2022.
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.
Large-city rate methodology for how Savannah's large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2022 Savannah, 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. Savannah is scored here as a large city UCR reporter (239,089 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.