Thomaston, GA has a C safety grade (48/100) with a violent crime rate of 303 per 100,000, 14% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Thomaston is a small municipal reporter (9,893 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with GA and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Thomaston, GA carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 14% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Thomaston, GA shows violent crime at 303.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,436.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 14% below 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 183.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 303.2 in 2024 (+65.1%). The highest observed value was 454.5 in 2022 and the lowest 0.0 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Thomaston's 303.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Rockmart (303.4), Brookhaven (303.5), Eastman (307.0), Marietta (298.3). 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 303.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Thomaston ranks 65 of 186 — above 121 of the 185 other Georgia cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +52.2% 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.
Property counts dominate Thomaston'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.
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 9.5 Census sq mi, Thomaston logged 25.3 property and 3.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Thomaston's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (77% of 271 offenses; mix index 6,019).
Violent offenses are only 11% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Thomaston offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (9.5 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 | 241 | 2436.1 |
| Larceny-Theft | 208 | 2102.5 |
| Burglary | 20 | 202.2 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 13 | 131.4 |
| Arson | 2 | 20.2 |
| Violent Crime | 30 | 303.2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 17 | 171.8 |
| Rape | 8 | 80.9 |
| Robbery | 3 | 30.3 |
| Murder | 2 | 20.2 |
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 8,711 | 183.7 | 906.9 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 8,735 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 9,681 | 454.5 | 2716.7 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 9,878 | 283.5 | 3158.5 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 9,893 | 303.2 | 2436.1 |
Thomaston Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Thomaston's 271 reported offenses (4-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
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 Thomaston in population. Their populations run from 9,348 to 10,679, against 9,893 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Thomaston sits at 303.2/100K violent (grade C); the Georgia cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Thomaston reported 30 violent crimes and 241 property crimes, for a total of 271 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Thomaston's violent crime rate increased by 6.9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 22.9%.
The most common crime type in Thomaston is larceny-theft, accounting for 76.8% of all reported crimes (208 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Thomaston 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 Thomaston's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Thomaston, 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. Thomaston is scored as a small-city UCR reporter (9,893 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.