Crime Grade · FBI UCR Data · 2025
Garden City, GA Crime Grade
How Garden City grades for violent crime against every other reporting U.S. city — and against the rest of Georgia — based on the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting data.
National
10/10
vs. all U.S. cities ≥ 25,000 population
Georgia
9/10
vs. Georgia cities ≥ 10,000 population
In 2025, the violent crime rate in Garden City, GA was 586.6 per 100,000 residents (62 incidents over a population of 10,570). That puts Garden City 80% above the U.S. rate of 325.3 and 102% above the Georgia statewide rate of 290.4.
That ranks Garden City #3,404 of 3,771 ranked U.S. cities, safer than 10% of them, and #74 of 90 in Georgia. Violent crime is down 28% year over year and down 64% over the last five years.
Garden City, GA crime — key facts
- National Crime Grade
- F (10/10)
- Georgia Grade
- F (9/10)
- Violent crime rate
- 586.6 / 100k
- National rank
- #3,404 of 3,771
- GA rank
- #74 of 90
- Safer than
- 10% of U.S. cities
- Year over year
- down 28%
- 5-year change
- down 64%
- Population
- 10,570
- Reporting agency
- Garden City Police Department
- Data year
- 2025 · FBI UCR
Reported by Garden City Police Department (FBI ORI GA0250200) to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program. Download the full dataset (CSV) · methodology.
About Garden City, GA
Also known as
- Industrial City Gardens
Name history sourced from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) — public-domain federal geographic-names data.
Violent crime rate, 5-year trend
Per 100,000 residents. Garden City (red), Georgia (blue), U.S. average (gray dashed).
Garden City vs. U.S., 2025 — by offense
Rates per 100,000 residents for each offense category.
Full data, last 5 years
Rates per 100,000 residents. Raw counts in parentheses.
| Offense | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violent crime | 1607.7(149) | 1034.3(106) | 804.8(84) | 810.6(84) | 586.6(62) |
| Murder | 21.6(2) | 19.5(2) | 19.2(2) | 0.0(0) | 0.0(0) |
| Rape | 107.9(10) | 78.1(8) | 76.6(8) | 19.3(2) | 85.1(9) |
| Robbery | 172.6(16) | 87.8(9) | 124.5(13) | 96.5(10) | 37.8(4) |
| Aggravated assault | 1305.6(121) | 848.9(87) | 584.4(61) | 694.8(72) | 463.6(49) |
| Property crime | 4369.9(405) | 3766.6(386) | 3065.7(320) | 3232.7(335) | 2450.3(259) |
| Burglary | 550.3(51) | 487.9(50) | 392.8(41) | 270.2(28) | 246.0(26) |
| Larceny | 3010.4(279) | 2615.1(268) | 2078.9(217) | 2296.6(238) | 1882.7(199) |
| Motor vehicle theft | 787.7(73) | 644.0(66) | 594.0(62) | 656.2(68) | 321.7(34) |
How the Crime Grade is calculated
- What is the source of the Garden City, GA Crime Grade?
- FBI Uniform Crime Reporting via the Crime Data Explorer. Agency-level data, pulled directly. No third-party aggregators, no proprietary score.
- What metric does the Garden City Crime Grade use?
- Violent crime rate per 100,000 residents (murder + rape + robbery + aggravated assault), most recent fully-reported year.
- How is the national decile for Garden City calculated?
- Garden City's rate placed against all FBI-reporting U.S. cities with population ≥ 25,000. 1 = safest.
- How is the Georgia state decile calculated?
- Same calculation restricted to Georgia cities with population ≥ 10,000.
- How do decile scores convert to a letter grade?
- 1–3 = A · 4–5 = B · 6–7 = C · 8 = D · 9–10 = F.
- How often is the Garden City Crime Grade refreshed?
- Twice a year. The FBI typically releases the prior year's full data each September.
- What are the limits of this Crime Grade?
- The FBI relies on local agency reporting. Rates reflect what was reported, not what occurred.
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