County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
Dawson County, GA
Dawson County (26,798 people) sits in the mid-size county band in Georgia. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.
Dawson County, GA reported 187 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Dawson County, GA agencies reported 50 violent and 268 property offenses. That equals about 187 violent and 1000 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
50 violent offenses
187/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Dawson County, GA
Position in the state cohort
Dawson County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Georgia counties
At 186.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Dawson County ranks 20 of 94 — above 74 of the 93 other Georgia counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +68.7% 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 93.7% of reported property offenses in Dawson County, against a cohort median of 67.8%. The remainder is burglary (17) and motor vehicle theft (0). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2021–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 194.0 per 100,000 in 2021 to 186.6 in 2024 (-3.8%). The highest observed value was 220.2 in 2022 and the lowest 130.6 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
268
Burglary
17
Larceny-Theft
251
Motor Vehicle Theft
0
Arson
0
Violent Crime
50
Murder
0
Rape
11
Robbery
1
Aggravated Assault
38
Reporting Agency
Dawson County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Dawson County's crime figures on this page originate from Dawson 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 Dawson County in population. Their populations run from 25,828 to 27,981, against 26,798 here. Or launch the
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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.