County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led

Butts County, GA

Butts County (25,434 people) sits in the mid-size county band in Georgia. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.

Data updated 2026-08-24

119
Property offenses
32
Violent offenses
151
Total · 2024

Butts County, GA reported 126 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024

According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Butts County, GA agencies reported 32 violent and 119 property offenses. That equals about 126 violent and 468 property crimes per 100,000 using a verified Census population join. Table 10 coverage is a voluntary subset of U.S. counties.

  • 2024 UCR year
  • 32 violent offenses
  • 126/100K violent rate

What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Butts County, GA

Position in the state cohort

Butts County sits mid-pack among comparable Georgia counties

At 125.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Butts County ranks 39 of 94 — above 55 of the 93 other Georgia counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +13.8% against the cohort median of 110.6. Counties 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 make up an unusually large share of the reported mix

Violent offenses are 21.2% of the 151 Part I offenses reported in Butts County for 2024, against a median of 16.8% across comparable Georgia counties — a gap of 4.4 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 133.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 125.8 in 2024 (-5.9%). The highest observed value was 161.2 in 2022 and the lowest 90.4 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.

Mid-size county rows still aggregate voluntary UCR submissions. Per-100,000 rates need a matched 2020 Census population; unmatched stay count-only. County-wide totals rarely describe any single town inside the line.

Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · mid-size county

Category Count
Property Crime 119
Burglary 13
Larceny-Theft 84
Motor Vehicle Theft 22
Arson 1
Violent Crime 32
Murder 2
Rape 3
Robbery 5
Aggravated Assault 22

Reporting Agency

Butts County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating

Butts County's crime figures on this page originate from Butts County Sheriff's Office's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.

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 Counties in Georgia

A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the Georgia counties closest to Butts County in population. Their populations run from 24,632 to 26,236, against 25,434 here. Or launch the side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two jurisdictions directly.

Nationwide peers for Butts County

Similar violent rate (~126/100K)

Similar property rate (~468/100K)

ZIP Codes in Butts County

State atlas: Georgia · Compare · Rankings

Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Crime in the United States (CIUS) Table 10.

FBI Table 10 supplies county offense counts but no resident population. Where this page shows a per-100,000 rate, the denominator is a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census Bureau county population; unmatched county rows remain count-only. Statewide comparisons draw on the state UCR program. Verify with FBI.gov UCR and Census.gov QuickFacts.

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