Sylvester, GA has a B safety grade (68/100) with a violent crime rate of 205 per 100,000, 42% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Sylvester is a small municipal reporter (5,379 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with GA and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Sylvester, GA carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 42% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Sylvester, GA shows violent crime at 204.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,301.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 42% 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.
Small-count caution
Sylvester reported 11 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 5,379. 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 Sylvester's 204.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Ringgold (203.3), Baxley (202.7), Porterdale (209.2), Emerson (209.6). 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 90.0% of reported property offenses in Sylvester, against a cohort median of 81.3%. The remainder is burglary (6) and motor vehicle theft (1). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 209.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 204.5 in 2024 (-2.3%). The highest observed value was 549.5 in 2021 and the lowest 204.5 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 204.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Sylvester ranks 91 of 186 — above 95 of the 185 other Georgia cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +2.7% 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 counts dominate Sylvester'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 11 reported violent incidents in a population of 5,379. 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 6.6 Census sq mi, Sylvester logged 10.7 property and 1.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Sylvester's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (78% of 81 offenses; mix index 6,165).
Violent offenses are only 14% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Sylvester offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (6.6 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 | 70 | 1301.4 |
| Larceny-Theft | 63 | 1171.2 |
| Burglary | 6 | 111.5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 1 | 18.6 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 11 | 204.5 |
| Aggravated Assault | 5 | 93 |
| Rape | 3 | 55.8 |
| Robbery | 2 | 37.2 |
| Murder | 1 | 18.6 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 5,732 | 209.4 | 1674.8 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 5,642 | 549.5 | 1542 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 5,488 | 236.9 | 1330.2 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 5,441 | 294.1 | 1433.6 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 5,379 | 204.5 | 1301.4 |
Sylvester Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Sylvester's 81 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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Georgia cities closest to Sylvester in population. Their populations run from 5,063 to 5,538, against 5,379 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Sylvester sits at 204.5/100K violent (grade B); the Georgia cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Sylvester reported 11 violent crimes and 70 property crimes, for a total of 81 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Sylvester's violent crime rate decreased by 30.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 9.2%.
The most common crime type in Sylvester is larceny-theft, accounting for 77.8% of all reported crimes (63 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Sylvester 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 Sylvester's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Sylvester, GA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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