Holliday-Dorsey-Fife House · Photo: Cdrcody · CC BY-SA 3.0Property crime per resident is higher in Fayetteville than in 83% of U.S. towns
Its police logs show 1.4 violent crimes and 23.3 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, while in the rest of Georgia the numbers are 3.9 and 21.5. All told, Fayetteville grades C for safety (#67 of 132 graded towns in Georgia): more crime per resident than 71% of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025. The rate the grade counts dropped 24% from 2023 to 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 Fayetteville
Among Georgia towns, closer to the middle
Georgia’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Fayetteville’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 49% of the 132 Georgia towns we grade, against 29% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
A job center
Fayetteville has 15,572 jobs based in town for 20,465 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 Fayetteville’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Violent crime holds Fayetteville’s grade up; property crime pulls it down.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
Show as a table
| Year | Fayetteville property | Rest of Georgia property | Fayetteville violent | Rest of Georgia violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 23.7 | 24.7 | 1.6 | 5.0 |
| 2023 | 25.9 | 25.4 | 1.0 | 4.5 |
| 2024 | 25.4 | 21.5 | 1.6 | 3.8 |
| 2025 | 18.8 | 18.0 | 1.7 | 3.5 |
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
Show as a table
| Year | Fayetteville | Rest of Georgia | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1.6 | 5.0 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 1.0 | 4.5 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 1.6 | 3.8 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 1.7 | 3.5 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Fayetteville’s police reported 88 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 1.4 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 Fayetteville 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.
425 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.
35 violent and 390 property, as reported to the FBI by Fayetteville’s police.
Nine people died in crashes on Fayetteville’s roads in 2019–2023
Fayetteville had 9 fatal crashes in five years, in which nine people died; 1 was a pedestrian.
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 Fayetteville’s size would see about 11 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Fayetteville’s own rate (9.1) 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.
Fayetteville and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fayetteville | C | 1.4 | 23.3 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Georgia towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fayetteville | C | 1.4 | 23.3 |
| Holly Springs | A | 0.0 | 4.3 |
| Richmond Hill | B | 1.4 | 9.9 |
| Winder | C+ | 2.2 | 13.0 |
| St. Marys | C+ | 2.9 | 11.5 |
| Conyers | D | 4.7 | 27.0 |
The five graded Georgia towns closest to Fayetteville’s population (20,465), 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 Fayetteville. 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 Fayetteville’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (20,786 in 2025); our figure for Fayetteville is 20,465 (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 Fayetteville
Is Fayetteville, GA safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Fayetteville reports more crime per resident than 71% of U.S. towns, a C Safety Grade and #67 of 132 in Georgia. Its police reported 1.4 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 Fayetteville?
1.4 violent and 23.3 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Georgia reports 3.9 and 21.5; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Who polices Fayetteville?
Fayetteville’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Fayetteville”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
Heads-up board
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Please don’t name or describe individuals. In an emergency, call 911.
Neighbors looking out for each other in Fayetteville.
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.