Photo: JamesPFisherIII · CC BY 3.0Lookout Mountain reports less crime per resident than 97% of U.S. towns
It has less violent crime than 95% of U.S. towns, and less property crime than 96%. Add to that, on crimes reported by Lookout Mountain’s police in 2023–2025, it grades A+ for safety. Typical years here bring 0.2 violent crime plus 1.8 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, against 3.9 plus 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 Lookout Mountain
A college town
Lookout Mountain is home to Covenant College, with 928 students taking classes on campus (federal college data), and 3% of residents are enrolled in college (Census). Students who live in town count as residents, so they are part of the per-resident rate. How to read it ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Lookout Mountain’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 lower than in most U.S. towns; property crime is the stronger of the two.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Lookout Mountain | Rest of Georgia | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 0.0 | 4.9 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 0.0 | 4.4 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 0.6 | 3.8 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.0 | 3.5 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Lookout Mountain’s police reported 1 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.2 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 Lookout Mountain 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 no violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Reported crime is steady
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| Year | Lookout Mountain property | Rest of Georgia property | Lookout Mountain violent | Rest of Georgia violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3.6 | 24.7 | 0.0 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 1.2 | 25.4 | 0.0 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 2.4 | 21.5 | 0.6 | 3.8 |
| 2025 | 1.8 | 18.0 | 0.0 | 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.
3 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.
0 violent and 3 property, as reported to the FBI by Lookout Mountain’s police.
No one died in a crash on Lookout Mountain’s roads in 2019–2023
That is about what 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 Lookout Mountain’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Lookout Mountain’s own rate (0.0) 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.
Lookout Mountain and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lookout Mountain | A+ | 0.2 | 1.8 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Georgia towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lookout Mountain | A+ | 0.2 | 1.8 |
| Hamilton | A+ | 0.4 | 1.7 |
| Pendergrass | A− | 1.1 | 4.3 |
| Ellaville | B | 0.9 | 9.9 |
| Ellijay | B | 0.8 | 10.7 |
| East Ellijay | C− | 2.6 | 28.2 |
The five graded Georgia towns closest to Lookout Mountain’s population (1,662), 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 Lookout Mountain. 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 Lookout Mountain’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (1,661 in 2025); our figure for Lookout Mountain is 1,662 (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 Lookout Mountain
Is Lookout Mountain, GA safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Lookout Mountain reports less crime per resident than 97% of U.S. towns, an A+ Safety Grade. Its police reported 0.2 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 Lookout Mountain?
0.2 violent and 1.8 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 Lookout Mountain?
Lookout Mountain’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Lookout Mountain”. 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.