Photo: JJonahJackalope · CC BY-SA 4.0Per resident, Dunwoody records more property crime than nine in ten U.S. towns
The rate the grade counts dropped 20% from 2023 to 2025. Dunwoody grades C− for safety overall (#89 of 132 graded towns in Georgia): more crime per resident than 84% of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Still, the local count comes to 2.0 violent crimes and 32.3 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 3.9 and 21.3 in the rest of 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 Dunwoody
2 of the 4 graded towns next door report less crime
Of the 5 Georgia towns on Dunwoody’s borders, 4 have a Safety Grade: Sandy Springs (B−), Brookhaven (C−), Chamblee (D), Doraville (D−). Peachtree Corners has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025. Neighbors ↓
Among Georgia towns, closer to the middle
Georgia’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Dunwoody’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 33% of the 132 Georgia towns we grade, against 16% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
A job center
Dunwoody has 51,736 jobs based in town for 51,792 residents (Census LEHD), so some reports involve people who work or shop there rather than residents. 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 Dunwoody’s 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; violent crime is the closer of the two to typical. Its violent rate (2.0) is below the FBI’s national estimate (3.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Dunwoody property | Rest of Georgia property | Dunwoody violent | Rest of Georgia violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 29.5 | 24.6 | 2.5 | 5.0 |
| 2023 | 35.7 | 25.2 | 2.2 | 4.5 |
| 2024 | 32.7 | 21.3 | 2.2 | 3.8 |
| 2025 | 28.5 | 17.9 | 1.6 | 3.6 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
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.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Dunwoody | Rest of Georgia | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2.5 | 5.0 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 2.2 | 4.5 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 2.2 | 3.8 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 1.6 | 3.6 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Dunwoody’s police reported 315 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 2.0 per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.9 in the rest of Georgia and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Crime in Dunwoody per 1,000 residents
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.
And about 2 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
1,563 crimes reported in 2025
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
83 violent and 1,480 property, as reported to the FBI by Dunwoody’s police.
Nine people died in crashes on Dunwoody’s roads in 2019–2023
Dunwoody had 9 fatal crashes in five years, in which nine people died; 2 were pedestrians. Most of these deaths (6 of 9) were on an Interstate passing through, so they say more about through-traffic than about the town’s own streets.
That is fewer than is typical for Georgia towns of 25,000–100,000 people: at their median rate (7.9 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Dunwoody’s size would see about 20 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Dunwoody’s own rate (3.5) 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.
Dunwoody and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dunwoody | C− | 2.0 | 32.3 |
| Sandy Springs | B− | 1.3 | 14.7 |
| Doraville | D− | 5.2 | 47.2 |
| Peachtree Corners | — | — | — |
| Brookhaven | C− | 3.1 | 22.4 |
| Chamblee | D | 5.8 | 36.6 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Peachtree Corners has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025.
Georgia towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dunwoody | C− | 2.0 | 32.3 |
| Smyrna | C+ | 2.5 | 13.0 |
| Marietta | C | 3.2 | 18.5 |
| Gainesville | C− | 4.2 | 21.6 |
| Newnan | C− | 5.0 | 17.7 |
| Valdosta | D | 5.0 | 38.9 |
The five graded Georgia towns closest to Dunwoody’s population (51,792), by grade.
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
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 Dunwoody. A citywide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of the city to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Dunwoody’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (51,850 in 2025); our figure for Dunwoody is 51,792 (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 Dunwoody
Is Dunwoody, GA safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Dunwoody reports more crime per resident than 84% of U.S. towns, a C− Safety Grade and #89 of 132 in Georgia. Its police reported 2.0 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 Dunwoody?
2.0 violent and 32.3 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Georgia reports 3.9 and 21.3; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
How many homicides were there in Dunwoody in 2025?
Dunwoody’s police reported 0 homicides to the FBI for 2025, 0.0 per 100,000 residents. Across U.S. cities and towns in the FBI’s tables the 2025 figure was 4.6.
Is Dunwoody safer than Sandy Springs?
Sandy Springs reports less crime per resident than Dunwoody: Sandy Springs grades B− for safety and Dunwoody C−. Sandy Springs’s police reported 1.3 violent and 14.7 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Dunwoody?
Dunwoody’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Dunwoody”. 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.