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

Dade County, GA

Dade County (16,251 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

59
Property offenses
12
Violent offenses
71
Total · 2024

Dade County, GA reported 74 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024

According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Dade County, GA agencies reported 12 violent and 59 property offenses. That equals about 74 violent and 363 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
  • 12 violent offenses
  • 74/100K violent rate

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

Small-count caution

The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable

Dade County reported 12 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 16,251. 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.

Position in the state cohort

Dade County sits mid-pack among comparable Georgia counties

At 73.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Dade County ranks 64 of 94 — above 30 of the 93 other Georgia counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -33.7% against the cohort median of 111.4. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.

Property-offense composition

Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort

Larceny-theft is 79.7% of reported property offenses in Dade County, against a cohort median of 67.8%. The remainder is burglary (11) and motor vehicle theft (1). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.

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 59
Burglary 11
Larceny-Theft 47
Motor Vehicle Theft 1
Arson 0
Violent Crime 12
Murder 0
Rape 2
Robbery 0
Aggravated Assault 10

Reporting Agency

Dade County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating

Dade County's crime figures on this page originate from Dade 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 Dade County in population. Their populations run from 15,709 to 17,229, against 16,251 here. Or launch the side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two jurisdictions directly.

ZIP Codes in Dade County

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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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