Photo: Michael Rivera · CC BY-SA 4.0Reported crime per resident in Douglas rose 291% from 2023 to 2025
Overall, Douglas grades B+ for safety (#17 of 132 graded towns in Georgia): less crime per resident than 71% of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported to the FBI in 2023–2025.
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 Douglas
Among Georgia towns, higher
Georgia’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Douglas’ place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 87% of the 132 Georgia towns we grade, against 71% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
A job center
Douglas has 13,177 jobs based in town for 11,864 residents (Census LEHD), so some reports involve people who work or shop there rather than residents. How to read it ↓
Reported crime is rising
Crime reported per resident rose 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 Douglas’ 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 lower than in most U.S. towns; violent crime is the stronger of the two.
Reported crime is rising
Reported crime per resident rose 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 | Douglas property | Rest of Georgia property | Douglas violent | Rest of Georgia violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2.0 | 24.8 | 0.9 | 5.0 |
| 2023 | 3.2 | 25.4 | 0.0 | 4.5 |
| 2024 | 10.9 | 21.5 | 0.2 | 3.8 |
| 2025 | 10.4 | 18.1 | 2.0 | 3.5 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Violent crime, by year and by type
Douglas’ police reported 26 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.7 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 | Douglas | Rest of Georgia | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 0.9 | 5.0 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 0.0 | 4.5 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 0.2 | 3.8 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 2.0 | 3.5 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
For every 1,000 residents, about 10 property crimes reported
And about 2 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.
147 crimes reported in 2025
24 violent and 123 property, as reported to the FBI by Douglas’ police.
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
14 people died in crashes on Douglas’s roads in 2019–2023
Douglas had 13 fatal crashes in five years, in which 14 people died; 3 were pedestrians and 1 was a cyclist.
That is 23.8 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, above the median for Georgia towns of 5,000–25,000 people (11.0, 121 towns).
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.
Douglas and its neighbors
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Douglas | B+ | 0.7 | 8.2 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Georgia towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Douglas | B+ | 0.7 | 8.2 |
| Rincon | A− | 0.6 | 5.5 |
| Flowery Branch | B | 0.9 | 10.4 |
| Cedartown | C− | 4.1 | 20.9 |
| Garden City | D | 7.3 | 29.1 |
| Vidalia | D− | 7.0 | 43.6 |
The five graded Georgia towns closest to Douglas’ population (11,864), by grade.
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 Douglas. 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 Douglas’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (11,858 in 2025); our figure for Douglas is 11,864 (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 Douglas
Is Douglas, GA safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Douglas reports less crime per resident than 71% of U.S. towns, a B+ Safety Grade and #17 of 132 in Georgia. Its police reported 0.7 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 Douglas?
0.7 violent and 8.2 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Georgia reports 3.9 and 21.5; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Is crime going up or down in Douglas?
Reported crime per resident rose from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings.
Who polices Douglas?
Douglas’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Douglas”. 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.