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Safety in Barnesville · Not graded

Crime reported in Barnesville, GA

Barnesville has no FBI crime figures of its own for 2023–2025, so there is nothing to grade it on.

Violent crimes
6
reported to the FBI, 2022
Property crimes
31
reported to the FBI, 2022
Nearest graded town
12 mi
Forsyth (C)
1,000 neighbors · one year

For every 1,000 residents, about 5 property crimes reported

And about 1 violent crime, in 2022. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.

Property crime (4.8)Violent crime (0.9)Everyone else

Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2022

Barnesville0.9
Rest of GA5.0
U.S. (FBI)4.0

Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2022

Barnesville4.8
Rest of GA24.7
U.S. (FBI)20.0

Crimes reported to police in 2022 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.

By year

The years Barnesville’s police reported

Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents, against the rest of Georgia. A year the department didn’t report in full is a gap, not a zero.

Show as a table
YearBarnesvilleRest of GeorgiaBarnesvilleRest of Georgia
20224.824.70.95.0
2023not reported25.4not reported4.4
2024not reported21.5not reported3.8
2025not reported18.0not reported3.5

Crimes per 1,000 residents

What gets reported

37 crimes reported in 2022

6 violent and 31 property, as reported to the FBI by Barnesville’s police.

2022 offenses reported

Larceny / theft24
Burglary4
Vehicle theft3
Aggravated assault5
Robbery1
Rape0
Homicide0
Arson0
6
violent crimes
31
property crimes

Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.

Nearest with figures

The nearest Georgia towns with a Safety Grade

Each town’s own police figures, per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.

TownGradeDistanceViolentProperty
ForsythC12 mi2.318.1
ThomastonC−15 mi2.926.8
GriffinD−15 mi9.531.7
Locust GroveC−20 mi2.728.1
HamptonB+24 mi1.74.5
SenoiaA+30 mi0.31.6

Straight-line distance from the center of Barnesville. Nearby towns can differ a lot from Barnesville.

On the roads

One person died in crashes on Barnesville’s roads in 2019–2023

Barnesville had 1 fatal crash in five years, in which one person died; 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 Barnesville’s size would see about 3 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Barnesville’s own rate (3.3) is context, not a ranking.

1
people died in crashes, 2019–2023
0
pedestrians among them
1
cyclist among them
3.3
per 100,000 a year · Georgia towns of 5,000–25,000: 11.0

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.

Next door

Barnesville and its neighbors

How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.

Aldora: not gradedAldoraBarnesville
A rangeB rangeC rangeD rangeNot graded
TownGradeViolentProperty

Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.

How to read these numbers

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 Barnesville. 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 Barnesville’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
  • Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (6,449 in 2022); our figure for Barnesville is 6,329 (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 Barnesville

Is Barnesville, GA safe?

There is no Safety Grade for Barnesville. Barnesville has no FBI crime figures of its own for 2023–2025, so there is nothing to grade it on. The nearest Georgia towns with a grade are Forsyth (C, 12 mi), Thomaston (C−, 15 mi), Griffin (D−, 15 mi).

Who polices Barnesville?

Barnesville’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Barnesville”. 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, 2022, 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.