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Safety in Social Circle · Not graded

The nearest town with a Safety Grade to Social Circle is Covington, 8 miles away

Social Circle’s police reported to the FBI for 2025 but not 2023 or 2024, so there is no Safety Grade: the grade needs all three years, 2023–2025. Nearby, 2 communities within 10 miles carry a Safety Grade.

Violent crimes
6
reported to the FBI, 2025
Property crimes
23
reported to the FBI, 2025
Nearest graded town
8 mi
Covington (D)
1,000 neighbors · one year

For every 1,000 residents, about 4 property crimes reported

Property crime (4.2)Violent crime (1.1)Everyone else

Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025

Social Circle1.1
Rest of GA3.5
U.S. (FBI)3.3

Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025

Social Circle4.2
Rest of GA18.0
U.S. (FBI)15.5

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 1 violent crime, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.

By year

The years Social Circle’s police reported

Show as a table
YearSocial CircleRest of GeorgiaSocial CircleRest of Georgia
202213.524.75.94.9
2023not reported25.4not reported4.4
2024not reported21.5not reported3.8
20254.218.01.13.5

Crimes per 1,000 residents

Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents, against the rest of Georgia. A year the department didn’t report in full is a gap, not a zero.

What gets reported

29 crimes reported in 2025

2025 offenses reported

Larceny / theft14
Burglary5
Vehicle theft4
Aggravated assault5
Robbery1
Rape0
Homicide0
Arson0
6
violent crimes
23
property crimes

Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.

6 violent and 23 property, as reported to the FBI by Social Circle’s police.

Nearest with figures

The nearest Georgia towns with a Safety Grade

TownGradeDistanceViolentProperty
CovingtonD8 mi5.335.9
OxfordA+9 mi0.03.2
MonroeC11 mi3.418.2
ConyersD16 mi4.727.0
SnellvilleC22 mi1.819.9
LithoniaC23 mi3.018.8

Straight-line distance from the center of Social Circle. Nearby towns can differ a lot from Social Circle.

Each town’s own police figures, per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.

On the roads

Six people died in crashes on Social Circle’s roads in 2019–2023

Social Circle had 5 fatal crashes in five years, in which six people died. 2 died in crashes on an Interstate.

That is more than is typical for Georgia towns of 5,000–25,000 people: at their median rate (11.0 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Social Circle’s size would see about 3 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Social Circle’s own rate (23.0) is context, not a ranking.

6
people died in crashes, 2019–2023
0
pedestrians among them
0
cyclists among them
23.0
per 100,000 a year · Georgia towns of 5,000–25,000: 11.0

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.

Next door

Social Circle and its neighbors

Social Circle
A rangeB rangeC rangeD rangeNot graded
TownGradeViolentProperty

Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.

How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.

How to read these numbers

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 Social Circle. 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 Social Circle’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
  • Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (5,524 in 2025); our figure for Social Circle is 5,537 (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 Social Circle

Is Social Circle, GA safe?

There is no Safety Grade for Social Circle. The nearest Georgia towns with a grade are Covington (D, 8 mi), Oxford (A+, 9 mi), Monroe (C, 11 mi).

Who polices Social Circle?

Social Circle’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Social Circle”. 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.