County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
Newton County, GA
At 112,483 residents, Newton County is a large county in Georgia. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Newton County, GA reported 269 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Newton County, GA agencies reported 303 violent and 1,016 property offenses. That equals about 269 violent and 903 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
303 violent offenses
269/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Newton County, GA
Position in the state cohort
Newton County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Georgia counties
At 269.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Newton County ranks 7 of 94 — above 87 of the 93 other Georgia counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +143.6% 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 23.0% of the 1,319 Part I offenses reported in Newton County for 2024, against a median of 16.8% across comparable Georgia counties — a gap of 6.2 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 248.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 269.4 in 2024 (+8.6%). The highest observed value was 348.5 in 2021 and the lowest 246.3 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
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
1,016
Burglary
124
Larceny-Theft
769
Motor Vehicle Theft
123
Arson
8
Violent Crime
303
Murder
2
Rape
26
Robbery
22
Aggravated Assault
253
Reporting Agency
Newton County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Newton County's crime figures on this page originate from Newton 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.