County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
Walton County, GA
At 96,673 residents, Walton County is a large county in Georgia. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Walton County, GA reported 28 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Walton County, GA agencies reported 27 violent and 181 property offenses. That equals about 28 violent and 187 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
27 violent offenses
28/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Walton County, GA
Position in the state cohort
Walton County reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable Georgia counties
At 27.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Walton County ranks 89 of 94 — above 5 of the 93 other Georgia counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -74.9% against the cohort median of 111.4. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Small-count caution
The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable
Walton County reported 27 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 96,673. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 41.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 27.9 in 2024 (-32.5%). The highest observed value was 53.8 in 2022 and the lowest 27.9 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 84.0% of reported property offenses in Walton County, against a cohort median of 67.8%. The remainder is burglary (13) and motor vehicle theft (16). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 13.0% of the 208 Part I offenses reported in Walton County for 2024, against a median of 16.9% across comparable Georgia counties — a gap of 3.9 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.
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
181
Burglary
13
Larceny-Theft
152
Motor Vehicle Theft
16
Arson
0
Violent Crime
27
Murder
0
Rape
3
Robbery
2
Aggravated Assault
22
Reporting Agency
Walton County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Walton County's crime figures on this page originate from Walton 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.