Treutlen County Courthouse · Photo: JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ MD · CC BY-SA 3.0In Soperton, the kinds of crime the grade counts rose 435% per resident from 2023 to 2025
Property crime is lower than in 55% of U.S. towns; violent crime, lower than in only 25%. Recorded violent crimes ran at 3.2 per 1,000 residents a year and property crime at 9.8, against 3.9 and 21.5 in the rest of Georgia. Its letter overall is C+ (#50 of 132 graded towns in Georgia): close to the middle of U.S. towns, from crimes its police reported through 2023 to 2025.
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 Soperton
Among Georgia towns, closer to the middle
Georgia’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Soperton’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 62% of the 132 Georgia towns we grade, against 41% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
Reported crime is rising
Crime reported per resident rose 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 Soperton’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Property crime holds Soperton’s grade up; violent crime pulls it down. Its violent rate (3.2) 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 | Soperton property | Rest of Georgia property | Soperton violent | Rest of Georgia violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2.4 | 25.4 | 1.0 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 11.4 | 21.5 | 5.8 | 3.8 |
| 2025 | 15.6 | 18.0 | 2.7 | 3.5 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident rose from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2023–2025, against the rest of Georgia.
Crime in Soperton 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 | Soperton | Rest of Georgia | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1.0 | 4.4 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 5.8 | 3.8 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 2.7 | 3.5 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Soperton’s police reported 28 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 3.2 per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.9 in the rest of Georgia and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
54 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.
8 violent and 46 property, as reported to the FBI by Soperton’s police.
No one died in a crash on Soperton’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 Soperton’s size would see about 2 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Soperton’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.
Soperton and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Soperton | C+ | 3.2 | 9.8 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Georgia towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Soperton | C+ | 3.2 | 9.8 |
| Chickamauga | A− | 1.1 | 4.8 |
| Donalsonville | B | 1.6 | 8.8 |
| Bloomingdale | B− | 1.1 | 14.0 |
| Ocilla | C− | 3.8 | 24.3 |
| Millen | D | 6.9 | 17.9 |
The five graded Georgia towns closest to Soperton’s population (2,994), 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 Soperton. 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 Soperton’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (2,946 in 2025); our figure for Soperton is 2,994 (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 Soperton
Is Soperton, GA safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Soperton reports more crime per resident than 59% of U.S. towns, a C+ Safety Grade and #50 of 132 in Georgia. Its police reported 3.2 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 Soperton?
3.2 violent and 9.8 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 Soperton?
Soperton’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Soperton”. 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.