Photo: Michael Rivera · CC BY-SA 4.0Per resident, Hazlehurst records more crime than nine in ten U.S. towns
A Safety Grade of D follows from crimes Hazlehurst’s police reported over the years 2023 to 2025: #103 of 132 graded towns in Georgia. Violent crime here is higher than in 89% of U.S. towns; property crime, higher than in 93%. Behind the grade sit 5.2 violent crimes and 32.7 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people a year, where the comparison is 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 Hazlehurst
Among Georgia towns, closer to the middle
Georgia’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Hazlehurst’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 22% of the 132 Georgia towns we grade, against 8% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Hazlehurst’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.
Crime in Hazlehurst 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.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Hazlehurst | Rest of Georgia | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2.0 | 4.9 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 4.7 | 4.4 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 5.2 | 3.8 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 5.8 | 3.5 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Hazlehurst’s police reported 64 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 5.2 per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.9 in the rest of Georgia and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Reported crime is steady
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| Year | Hazlehurst property | Rest of Georgia property | Hazlehurst violent | Rest of Georgia violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 27.7 | 24.7 | 2.0 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 32.4 | 25.3 | 4.7 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 34.4 | 21.5 | 5.2 | 3.8 |
| 2025 | 31.2 | 18.0 | 5.8 | 3.5 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident was steady from 2023 to 2025: the change is within ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of Georgia.
153 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.
24 violent and 129 property, as reported to the FBI by Hazlehurst’s police.
Five people died in crashes on Hazlehurst’s roads in 2019–2023
Hazlehurst had 5 fatal crashes in five years, in which five people died; 2 were pedestrians and 1 was a cyclist.
That is more than is typical for Georgia towns of 2,500–5,000 people: at their median rate (10.9 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Hazlehurst’s size would see about 2 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Hazlehurst’s own rate (24.4) 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.
Hazlehurst and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hazlehurst | D | 5.2 | 32.7 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Georgia towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hazlehurst | D | 5.2 | 32.7 |
| Euharlee | B+ | 1.3 | 6.2 |
| Hephzibah | B− | 1.3 | 14.4 |
| Summerville | C+ | 2.0 | 14.3 |
| Dawson | C+ | 4.1 | 7.6 |
| Metter | C− | 3.0 | 20.7 |
The five graded Georgia towns closest to Hazlehurst’s population (4,172), 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 Hazlehurst. 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 Hazlehurst’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (4,133 in 2025); our figure for Hazlehurst is 4,172 (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 Hazlehurst
Is Hazlehurst, GA safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Hazlehurst reports more crime per resident than 92% of U.S. towns, a D Safety Grade and #103 of 132 in Georgia. Its police reported 5.2 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 Hazlehurst?
5.2 violent and 32.7 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 Hazlehurst?
Hazlehurst’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Hazlehurst”. 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.