Wilkes County, GA reported 376 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Wilkes County, GA agencies reported 36 violent and 93 property offenses. That equals about 376 violent and 972 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
36 violent offenses
376/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Wilkes County, GA
Position in the state cohort
Wilkes County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Georgia counties
At 376.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Wilkes County ranks 3 of 94 — above 91 of the 93 other Georgia counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +240.3% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 982.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 376.4 in 2024 (-61.7%). The highest observed value was 982.7 in 2020 and the lowest 376.4 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 27.9% of the 129 Part I offenses reported in Wilkes County for 2024, against a median of 16.8% across comparable Georgia counties — a gap of 11.1 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.
Small-county UCR rows are especially sensitive to which agencies filed. Per-100,000 rates use a matched 2020 Census population when available; otherwise counts only. Do not treat the county total as a town-level crime level.
Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · small county
Category
Count
Property Crime
93
Burglary
19
Larceny-Theft
63
Motor Vehicle Theft
11
Arson
1
Violent Crime
36
Murder
3
Rape
3
Robbery
2
Aggravated Assault
28
Reporting Agency
Wilkes County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Wilkes County's crime figures on this page originate from Wilkes 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.