County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
Paulding County, GA
At 168,661 residents, Paulding County is a large county in Georgia. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Paulding County, GA reported 244 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Paulding County, GA agencies reported 412 violent and 1,132 property offenses. That equals about 244 violent and 671 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
412 violent offenses
244/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Paulding County, GA
Position in the state cohort
Paulding County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Georgia counties
At 244.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Paulding County ranks 12 of 94 — above 82 of the 93 other Georgia counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +120.9% 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 26.7% of the 1,544 Part I offenses reported in Paulding County for 2024, against a median of 16.8% across comparable Georgia counties — a gap of 9.9 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
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 80.0% of reported property offenses in Paulding County, against a cohort median of 67.8%. The remainder is burglary (120) and motor vehicle theft (106). 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 higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 222.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 244.3 in 2024 (+9.9%). The highest observed value was 343.9 in 2023 and the lowest 222.3 in 2020. 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
1,132
Burglary
120
Larceny-Theft
906
Motor Vehicle Theft
106
Arson
9
Violent Crime
412
Murder
4
Rape
44
Robbery
15
Aggravated Assault
349
Reporting Agency
Paulding County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Paulding County's crime figures on this page originate from Paulding 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.