Photo: Bellemare · CC BY-SA 3.0Garden City records more crime per resident than 93% of U.S. towns
Violent crime here is higher than in 95% of U.S. towns; property crime, higher than in 90%. Per resident, the graded crimes were down 20% from 2023 to 2025. The grade is D, built on crimes Garden City’s police reported from 2023 to 2025: #108 of 132 graded towns in Georgia. Year on year, 7.3 violent crimes and 29.1 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 3.9 and 21.5 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 Garden City
1 of the 1 graded towns next door reports less crime
Of the 2 Georgia towns on Garden City’s borders, 1 have a Safety Grade: Port Wentworth (B). Savannah reported to the FBI for 2024 and 2025 but not 2023. Neighbors ↓
A job center
Garden City has 9,197 jobs based in town for 10,513 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 Garden City’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; property crime is the closer of the two to typical.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Garden City property | Rest of Georgia property | Garden City violent | Rest of Georgia violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 37.2 | 24.7 | 10.3 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 30.5 | 25.3 | 8.0 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 32.1 | 21.5 | 8.1 | 3.8 |
| 2025 | 24.8 | 18.0 | 5.9 | 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
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| Year | Garden City | Rest of Georgia | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 10.3 | 4.9 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 8.0 | 4.4 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 8.1 | 3.8 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 5.9 | 3.5 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Garden City’s police reported 230 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 7.3 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 Garden City 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 6 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
324 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.
62 violent and 262 property, as reported to the FBI by Garden City’s police.
11 people died in crashes on Garden City’s roads in 2019–2023
Garden City had 11 fatal crashes in five years, in which 11 people died; 4 were pedestrians and 1 was a cyclist. 2 died in crashes on an Interstate.
That is 21.1 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.
Garden City and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Garden City | D | 7.3 | 29.1 |
| Savannah | — | — | — |
| Port Wentworth | B | 1.6 | 10.4 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Savannah reported to the FBI for 2024 and 2025 but not 2023.
Georgia towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Garden City | D | 7.3 | 29.1 |
| Cairo | C | 2.0 | 21.3 |
| Cedartown | C− | 4.1 | 20.9 |
| Thomaston | C− | 2.9 | 26.8 |
| Vidalia | D− | 7.0 | 43.6 |
| Cordele | D− | 13.6 | 39.8 |
The five graded Georgia towns closest to Garden City’s population (10,513), 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 Garden City. 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 Garden City’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (10,570 in 2025); our figure for Garden City is 10,513 (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 Garden City
Is Garden City, GA safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Garden City reports more crime per resident than 93% of U.S. towns, a D Safety Grade and #108 of 132 in Georgia. Its police reported 7.3 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 Garden City?
7.3 violent and 29.1 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 Garden City safer than Port Wentworth?
Port Wentworth reports less crime per resident than Garden City: Port Wentworth grades B for safety and Garden City D. Port Wentworth’s police reported 1.6 violent and 10.4 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Garden City?
Garden City’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Garden City”. 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.