Georgia's comparable FBI window (2014–2024, 11 years) shows declines on both major offense rates — charts below keep the larger |endpoint| move first.
Declining-window verdict
Georgia's violent crime rate fell 19.0% from 2014 to 2024; its property crime rate fell 52.6%. The endpoints agree on the broad direction, but the intervening years still matter.
Full-window endpoints
Violent crime moved from 370.0 to 299.6 per 100,000 (-19.0%). Property crime moved from 3306.2 to 1567.1 (-52.6%). These are endpoint comparisons, not proof that every intervening year followed the same direction.
Peak and trough
The highest observed violent-crime rate was 381.4 in 2016; the lowest was 260.6 in 2019. The latest value lies 32% of the way from that low to that peak, which shows whether the endpoint is close to an extreme or near the middle of the observed range.
Year-to-year movement
The largest annual change ran from 2020 to 2021: +26.4%. Across the full sequence, 4 year-to-year steps rose by more than 1% and 5 fell by more than 1%. A single sharp step can reflect participation or reporting changes as well as a real change in recorded offenses.
Latest national comparison
For 2024, the state rate was 299.6 per 100,000 versus 352.0 across the state records in this dataset, a gap of 14.9% below. This is a state-level benchmark, not a neighborhood-safety conclusion.
Recent direction check
From 2021 to 2024, the violent-crime rate fell 9.1%, compared with -19.0% across the full 2014-2024 window. That difference is why the latest few observations should be read separately from the decade-scale endpoints.
Rate denominator
The reported population changed from 10,097,343 to 11,180,878 (+10.7%). Rates account for that denominator change; raw offense counts do not. This is one reason a count and a per-100,000 rate can move by different percentages over the same years.
Georgia's property rate fell 32.3% (-621.4 per 100K) from 2019 to 2020 (1922.2 → 1300.8) — the sharpest comparable year-to-year step in this window. The largest move the other way was jumped 14.1% from 2020 to 2021 (1300.8 → 1484.2).
Georgia's property gap vs the US aggregate moved from 31.1% above in 2014 to 8.4% below in 2024 (-39.5 pp).
| Year | Coverage | Population | Property | Rate | YoY | Violent | Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Comparable | 11,180,878 | 175,221 | 1567.1 | ↓ 10.3% | 33,497 | 299.6 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 11,029,227 | 192,697 | 1747.1 | ↑ 7.4% | 37,288 | 338.1 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 10,912,876 | 177,537 | 1626.9 | ↑ 9.6% | 39,667 | 363.5 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 10,799,596 | 160,286 | 1484.2 | ↑ 14.1% | 35,591 | 329.6 |
| 2020 | Comparable | 10,710,017 | 139,316 | 1300.8 | ↓ 32.3% | 27,918 | 260.7 |
| 2019 | Comparable | 10,617,423 | 204,088 | 1922.2 | ↓ 22.0% | 27,665 | 260.6 |
| 2018 | Comparable | 10,519,475 | 259,385 | 2465.8 | ↑ 0.7% | 33,236 | 315.9 |
| 2017 | Comparable | 10,429,379 | 255,440 | 2449.2 | ↓ 18.1% | 32,262 | 309.3 |
| 2016 | Comparable | 10,310,371 | 308,505 | 2992.2 | ↑ 1.2% | 39,326 | 381.4 |
| 2015 | Comparable | 10,214,860 | 302,017 | 2956.6 | ↓ 10.6% | 36,521 | 357.5 |
| 2014 | Comparable | 10,097,343 | 333,838 | 3306.2 | - | 37,363 | 370 |
More in Georgia: overview, safest cities, most dangerous, compare. Methodology — FBI UCR / Crime Data Explorer rates per 100,000 for Georgia (2014–2024); Census population where FBI denominators are missing.