Crime Grade · FBI UCR Data · 2025
Waycross, GA Crime Grade
How Waycross 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 Waycross, GA was 654.0 per 100,000 residents (89 incidents over a population of 13,608). That puts Waycross 101% above the U.S. rate of 325.3 and 125% above the Georgia statewide rate of 290.4.
That ranks Waycross #3,473 of 3,771 ranked U.S. cities, safer than 8% of them, and #76 of 90 in Georgia. Violent crime is down 37% year over year and down 33% over the last five years.
Waycross, GA crime — key facts
- National Crime Grade
- F (10/10)
- Georgia Grade
- F (9/10)
- Violent crime rate
- 654.0 / 100k
- National rank
- #3,473 of 3,771
- GA rank
- #76 of 90
- Safer than
- 8% of U.S. cities
- Year over year
- down 37%
- 5-year change
- down 33%
- Population
- 13,608
- Reporting agency
- Waycross Police Department
- Data year
- 2025 · FBI UCR
Reported by Waycross Police Department (FBI ORI GA1480100) to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program. Download the full dataset (CSV) · methodology.
About Waycross, GA
Also known as
- Tebeauville
- Station Number 9
- Old Nine
- Pendleton
- Way Cross
- Yankee Town
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. Waycross (red), Georgia (blue), U.S. average (gray dashed).
Waycross 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 | 973.1(130) | 887.7(121) | 659.2(90) | 1040.8(142) | 654.0(89) |
| Murder | 15.0(2) | 44.0(6) | 14.6(2) | 7.3(1) | 14.7(2) |
| Rape | 179.7(24) | 80.7(11) | 65.9(9) | 117.3(16) | 58.8(8) |
| Robbery | 112.3(15) | 168.7(23) | 73.2(10) | 117.3(16) | 80.8(11) |
| Aggravated assault | 666.2(89) | 594.3(81) | 505.4(69) | 798.9(109) | 499.7(68) |
| Property crime | 4686.0(626) | 4592.8(626) | 5105.5(697) | 5064.5(691) | 3983.0(542) |
| Burglary | 830.9(111) | 631.0(86) | 622.6(85) | 564.4(77) | 433.6(59) |
| Larceny | 3428.4(458) | 3639.0(496) | 4160.6(568) | 4177.7(570) | 3373.0(459) |
| Motor vehicle theft | 359.3(48) | 293.5(40) | 249.0(34) | 307.8(42) | 161.7(22) |
How the Crime Grade is calculated
- What is the source of the Waycross, 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 Waycross 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 Waycross calculated?
- Waycross'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 Waycross 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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