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On crimes reported to the FBI by Americus’ police in 2023–2025, it grades D− for safety: #128 of 132 graded towns in Georgia.
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. “Rest of GA” is every other Georgia city and town in the FBI’s tables; the U.S. figure is the FBI’s national estimate as published, averaged over the three years. The FBI publishes no national homicide or robbery rate in our data, so those compare with all U.S. cities and towns in its tables.
What stands out about safety in Americus
A college town
Americus is home to Georgia Southwestern State University, with 2,037 students taking classes on campus (federal college data), and 13% of residents are enrolled in college (Census). Students who live in town count as residents, so they are part of the per-resident rate. How to read it ↓
Reported crime is falling
Crime reported per resident fell from 2023 to 2025 by more than ordinary year-to-year swings, on the grade’s own score. Trend ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Americus’ grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Both violent and property crime are higher than in most U.S. towns; property crime is the closer of the two to typical.
Violent crime, by year and by type
Americus’ police reported 606 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 13.0 per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.9 in the rest of Georgia and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
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| Year | Americus | Rest of Georgia | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 12.5 | 4.9 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 13.5 | 4.4 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 16.5 | 3.7 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 9.0 | 3.5 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Reported crime is falling
Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of Georgia.
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| Year | Americus property | Rest of Georgia property | Americus violent | Rest of Georgia violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 36.6 | 24.6 | 12.5 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 36.4 | 25.3 | 13.5 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 39.3 | 21.4 | 16.5 | 3.7 |
| 2025 | 30.4 | 18.0 | 9.0 | 3.5 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
For every 1,000 residents, about 30 property crimes reported
And about 9 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Crimes reported to police in 2025 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.
616 crimes reported in 2025
141 violent and 475 property, as reported to the FBI by Americus’ police.
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
Eight people died in crashes on Americus’s roads in 2019–2023
Americus had 7 fatal crashes in five years, in which eight people died; 2 were pedestrians and 1 was a cyclist.
That is about what is typical for Georgia towns of 5,000–25,000 people: at their median rate (11.0 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Americus’s size would see about 9 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Americus’s own rate (10.1) is context, not a ranking.
Deaths are counted where the crash happened, not where the people lived: a highway through town adds through-traffic deaths, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Town rates sit below state and U.S. rates because a third of fatal crashes happen outside any town. Road safety is described here and is not part of the Safety Grade. Source: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023.
Americus and its neighbors
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Americus | D− | 13.0 | 35.4 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- It’s reported crime. Only incidents reported to and recorded by police appear here. Many crimes are never reported to police.
- One number for all of Americus. A town-wide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of town to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Americus’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (15,632 in 2025); our figure for Americus is 15,617 (2025 Census estimate).
- Gaps are real gaps. A missing year means the department didn’t report a full year, not that nothing happened.
How the grade is calculated, for every town: How TownRatings grades safety →
Questions about safety in Americus
Is Americus, GA safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Americus reports more crime per resident than 98% of U.S. towns, a D− Safety Grade and #128 of 132 in Georgia. Its police reported 13.0 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.9 in the rest of Georgia and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Americus?
13.0 violent and 35.4 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Georgia reports 3.9 and 21.4; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Is crime going up or down in Americus?
Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings.
Who polices Americus?
Americus’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Americus”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
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Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 2025, and state and national rates. Counts are crimes reported to police, not convictions. The Safety Grade is our own summary of that data, not an official rating. Road deaths: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023. This isn’t an official statement of public safety. In an emergency, call 911.