Richmond Hill Plantation · Photo: David Deiner, Photographer · Public domainFor recorded crime, Richmond Hill sits in the middle of U.S. towns
Richmond Hill’s overall Safety Grade is B (#28 of 132 graded towns in Georgia): close to the middle of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025. On top of that, for every 1,000 residents, 1.4 violent crimes and 9.9 incidents of property crime were logged a year; in the rest of Georgia, the figures are 3.9 and 21.5.
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 Richmond Hill
Among Georgia towns, higher
Georgia’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Richmond Hill’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 79% of the 132 Georgia towns we grade, against 58% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Richmond Hill’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; violent crime is the stronger of the two.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Richmond Hill | Rest of Georgia | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1.6 | 5.0 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 1.2 | 4.5 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 1.2 | 3.8 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 1.8 | 3.5 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Richmond Hill’s police reported 82 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 Richmond Hill 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.
Reported crime is steady
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| Year | Richmond Hill property | Rest of Georgia property | Richmond Hill violent | Rest of Georgia violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 10.3 | 24.8 | 1.6 | 5.0 |
| 2023 | 10.0 | 25.4 | 1.2 | 4.5 |
| 2024 | 11.2 | 21.6 | 1.2 | 3.8 |
| 2025 | 8.7 | 18.1 | 1.8 | 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.
217 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.
38 violent and 179 property, as reported to the FBI by Richmond Hill’s police.
10 people died in crashes on Richmond Hill’s roads in 2019–2023
Richmond Hill had 10 fatal crashes in five years, in which 10 people died; 2 were pedestrians. 4 died in crashes on an Interstate.
That is 11.0 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, about the same as 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.
Richmond Hill and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Richmond Hill | B | 1.4 | 9.9 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Georgia towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Richmond Hill | B | 1.4 | 9.9 |
| Holly Springs | A | 0.0 | 4.3 |
| St. Marys | C+ | 2.9 | 11.5 |
| Fayetteville | C | 1.4 | 23.3 |
| Conyers | D | 4.7 | 27.0 |
| Forest Park | D | 7.0 | 31.0 |
The five graded Georgia towns closest to Richmond Hill’s population (20,022), 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 Richmond Hill. 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 Richmond Hill’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (20,687 in 2025); our figure for Richmond Hill is 20,022 (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 Richmond Hill
Is Richmond Hill, GA safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Richmond Hill reports less crime per resident than 58% of U.S. towns, a B Safety Grade and #28 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 Richmond Hill?
1.4 violent and 9.9 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 Richmond Hill?
Richmond Hill’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Richmond Hill”. 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.