County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
Tift County, GA
Tift County (41,344 people) sits in the mid-size county band in Georgia. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.
Tift County, GA reported 414 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Tift County, GA agencies reported 171 violent and 484 property offenses. That equals about 414 violent and 1171 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
171 violent offenses
414/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Tift County, GA
Position in the state cohort
Tift County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Georgia counties
At 413.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Tift County ranks 2 of 94 — above 92 of the 93 other Georgia counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +274.0% 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 26.1% of the 655 Part I offenses reported in Tift County for 2024, against a median of 16.8% across comparable Georgia counties — a gap of 9.3 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 430.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 413.6 in 2024 (-3.9%). The highest observed value was 430.5 in 2020 and the lowest 333.8 in 2021. 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
484
Burglary
105
Larceny-Theft
313
Motor Vehicle Theft
66
Arson
4
Violent Crime
171
Murder
2
Rape
10
Robbery
13
Aggravated Assault
146
Reporting Agency
Tift County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Tift County's crime figures on this page originate from Tift 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
A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the Georgia counties closest to Tift County in population. Their populations run from 39,973 to 43,799, against 41,344 here. Or launch the
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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.