Photo: csmith/dbb1 · CC BY-SA 3.0Locust Grove records more property crime per head than 89% of U.S. towns
Its letter overall is C− (#88 of 132 graded towns in Georgia): more crime per resident than 83% of U.S. towns, from crimes its police reported through 2023 to 2025. Even so, the crimes the grade counts fell 25% per resident from 2023 to 2025. Year on year, 2.7 violent crimes and 28.1 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 Locust Grove
Among Georgia towns, closer to the middle
Georgia’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Locust Grove’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 17% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
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 Locust Grove’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 (2.7) 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 | Locust Grove property | Rest of Georgia property | Locust Grove violent | Rest of Georgia violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 41.3 | 24.6 | 3.0 | 5.0 |
| 2023 | 31.5 | 25.3 | 3.1 | 4.5 |
| 2024 | 29.6 | 21.5 | 2.6 | 3.8 |
| 2025 | 23.4 | 18.0 | 2.5 | 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.
Crime in Locust Grove 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 3 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 | Locust Grove | Rest of Georgia | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3.0 | 5.0 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 3.1 | 4.5 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 2.6 | 3.8 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 2.5 | 3.5 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Locust Grove’s police reported 98 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 2.7 per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.9 in the rest of Georgia and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
323 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.
31 violent and 292 property, as reported to the FBI by Locust Grove’s police.
13 people died in crashes on Locust Grove’s roads in 2019–2023
Locust Grove had 10 fatal crashes in five years, in which 13 people died; 2 were pedestrians. Most of these deaths (8 of 13) were on an Interstate passing through, so they say more about through-traffic than about the town’s own streets.
That is 24.7 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.
Locust Grove and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Locust Grove | C− | 2.7 | 28.1 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Georgia towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Locust Grove | C− | 2.7 | 28.1 |
| Clarkston | D | 6.1 | 21.9 |
| Bainbridge | D | 5.7 | 29.5 |
| Waycross | D− | 7.7 | 46.4 |
| Moultrie | D− | 9.0 | 45.5 |
| College Park | D− | 14.9 | 71.8 |
The five graded Georgia towns closest to Locust Grove’s population (14,610), 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 Locust Grove. 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 Locust Grove’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (12,497 in 2025); our figure for Locust Grove is 14,610 (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 Locust Grove
Is Locust Grove, GA safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Locust Grove reports more crime per resident than 83% of U.S. towns, a C− Safety Grade and #88 of 132 in Georgia. Its police reported 2.7 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 Locust Grove?
2.7 violent and 28.1 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.
Who polices Locust Grove?
Locust Grove’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Locust Grove”. 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.