City Population Violent / 100K Property / 100K Grade
Arcade 2,008 199.2 1,394.4 B
Ellijay 1,978 151.7 1,314.5 B
Porterdale 1,912 209.2 1,255.2 B
Pendergrass 1,839 217.5 271.9 A
East Ellijay 1,799 277.9 2,112.3 C
Hamilton 1,790 111.7 111.7 A
Lookout Mountain 1,680 59.5 238.1 A+
Wadley 1,547 581.8 2,197.8 F
Ellaville 1,526 196.6 1,310.6 B
Emerson 1,431 209.6 908.5 B
Omega 1,320 227.3 454.5 B
Pine Mountain 1,301 384.3 922.4 C
Boston 1,218 82.1 328.4 A
Cave Spring 1,210 330.6 743.8 B
Franklin Springs 1,199 0 250.2 A+
Broxton 1,081 185 462.5 A
Alto 1,005 0 298.5 A+
Kingston 968 0 103.3 A+
Franklin 967 103.4 827.3 A
Buchanan 966 0 0 A+
Eton 852 0 0 A+
Blairsville 850 0 1,764.7 A
Danielsville 850 0 705.9 A+
Milner 828 0 0 A+
Doerun 712 280.9 1,966.3 C
Canon 705 0 141.8 A+
Coolidge 530 377.4 1,698.1 C
Leary 495 0 0 A+
Warwick 489 0 409 A+
Shiloh 429 0 7,226.1 B
Stapleton 399 0 0 A+
Midville 379 0 1,055.4 A+
Braswell 370 0 0 A+
Leslie 336 0 0 A+
Newington 297 673.4 2,356.9 F
Cecil 281 0 355.9 A+
Bartow 177 0 0 A+
Showing cities 151–187 of 187 in Georgia, by population. See the Georgia safest and most dangerous city rankings, or the Georgia crime overview.

How These City Grades Are Calculated

Each grade weighs a city's violent crime rate (70%) and property crime rate (30%) against the national averages, drawn from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Crime in the United States, Table 8 for 2024. Rates use (offenses ÷ population) × 100,000.

UCR participation is voluntary, so not every Georgia city reports every year, and small-population cities can show volatile rates where a single incident moves the per-capita figure sharply. Read the full methodology for the scoring formula and limitations.