County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
Fayette County, GA
At 119,194 residents, Fayette County is a large county in Georgia. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Fayette County, GA reported 25 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Fayette County, GA agencies reported 30 violent and 208 property offenses. That equals about 25 violent and 175 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
30 violent offenses
25/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Fayette County, GA
Position in the state cohort
Fayette County reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable Georgia counties
At 25.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Fayette County ranks 90 of 94 — above 4 of the 93 other Georgia counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -77.4% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 31.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 25.2 in 2024 (-21.1%). The highest observed value was 36.9 in 2022 and the lowest 25.2 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 12.6% of the 238 Part I offenses reported in Fayette County for 2024, against a median of 16.9% across comparable Georgia counties — a gap of 4.3 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.
On a large county row, county figures aggregate every participating agency inside the county. Participation is voluntary. Per-100,000 rates use a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census county population, never a Table 10 field; unmatched counties stay count-only. A large county line encloses very different communities.
Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · large county
Category
Count
Property Crime
208
Burglary
36
Larceny-Theft
146
Motor Vehicle Theft
26
Arson
1
Violent Crime
30
Murder
1
Rape
2
Robbery
3
Aggravated Assault
24
Reporting Agency
Fayette County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Fayette County's crime figures on this page originate from Fayette 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
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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.