County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
Meriwether County, GA
Meriwether County (20,613 people) sits in the mid-size county band in Georgia. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.
Meriwether County, GA reported 199 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Meriwether County, GA agencies reported 41 violent and 123 property offenses. That equals about 199 violent and 597 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
41 violent offenses
199/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Meriwether County, GA
Position in the state cohort
Meriwether County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Georgia counties
At 198.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Meriwether County ranks 16 of 94 — above 78 of the 93 other Georgia counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +79.9% 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 25.0% of the 164 Part I offenses reported in Meriwether County for 2024, against a median of 16.8% across comparable Georgia counties — a gap of 8.2 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.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 58.5% of reported property offenses in Meriwether County, against a cohort median of 67.8%. The remainder is burglary (37) and motor vehicle theft (14). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 218.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 198.9 in 2024 (-8.9%). The highest observed value was 218.3 in 2020 and the lowest 150.4 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
123
Burglary
37
Larceny-Theft
72
Motor Vehicle Theft
14
Arson
1
Violent Crime
41
Murder
2
Rape
2
Robbery
1
Aggravated Assault
36
Reporting Agency
Meriwether County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Meriwether County's crime figures on this page originate from Meriwether 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.