County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
Gilmer County, GA
Gilmer County (31,353 people) sits in the mid-size county band in Georgia. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.
Gilmer County, GA reported 198 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Gilmer County, GA agencies reported 62 violent and 174 property offenses. That equals about 198 violent and 555 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
62 violent offenses
198/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Gilmer County, GA
Position in the state cohort
Gilmer County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Georgia counties
At 197.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Gilmer County ranks 18 of 94 — above 76 of the 93 other Georgia counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +78.8% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 290.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 197.7 in 2024 (-31.9%). The highest observed value was 290.2 in 2020 and the lowest 178.6 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 26.3% of the 236 Part I offenses reported in Gilmer County for 2024, against a median of 16.8% across comparable Georgia counties — a gap of 9.5 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.
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
174
Burglary
39
Larceny-Theft
111
Motor Vehicle Theft
24
Arson
0
Violent Crime
62
Murder
1
Rape
12
Robbery
1
Aggravated Assault
48
Reporting Agency
Gilmer County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Gilmer County's crime figures on this page originate from Gilmer 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.