Photo: John Trainor · CC BY 2.0Thomasville sees more crime per resident than nine in ten U.S. towns
The grade is D, built on crimes Thomasville’s police reported from 2023 to 2025: #103 of 132 graded towns in Georgia. Annual rates stand at 5.9 violent crimes and 31.7 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 3.9 and 21.4 in the rest of Georgia. The graded rate fell 30% from 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 Thomasville
Among Georgia towns, closer to the middle
Georgia’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Thomasville’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 22% of the 132 Georgia towns we grade, against 8% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
A college town
Thomasville is home to Southern Regional Technical College, with 3,415 students taking classes on campus (federal college data), and 4% 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 ↓
A job center
Thomasville has 13,655 jobs based in town for 18,667 residents (Census LEHD), so some reports involve people who work or shop there rather than residents. How to read it ↓
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 Thomasville’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.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Thomasville property | Rest of Georgia property | Thomasville violent | Rest of Georgia violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 39.2 | 24.6 | 4.3 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 36.4 | 25.3 | 6.7 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 32.8 | 21.4 | 6.6 | 3.8 |
| 2025 | 26.1 | 18.0 | 4.3 | 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 Thomasville 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 4 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 | Thomasville | Rest of Georgia | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 4.3 | 4.9 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 6.7 | 4.4 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 6.6 | 3.8 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 4.3 | 3.5 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Thomasville’s police reported 324 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 5.9 per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.9 in the rest of Georgia and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
562 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.
79 violent and 483 property, as reported to the FBI by Thomasville’s police.
10 people died in crashes on Thomasville’s roads in 2019–2023
Thomasville had 9 fatal crashes in five years, in which 10 people died; 2 were pedestrians.
That is 10.7 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.
Thomasville and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thomasville | D | 5.9 | 31.7 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Georgia towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thomasville | D | 5.9 | 31.7 |
| Grovetown | A | 0.8 | 2.2 |
| Braselton | B+ | 0.8 | 7.3 |
| Port Wentworth | B | 1.6 | 10.4 |
| Norcross | C− | 2.8 | 24.2 |
| Forest Park | D | 7.0 | 31.0 |
The five graded Georgia towns closest to Thomasville’s population (18,667), 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 Thomasville. 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 Thomasville’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (18,540 in 2025); our figure for Thomasville is 18,667 (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 Thomasville
Is Thomasville, GA safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Thomasville reports more crime per resident than 92% of U.S. towns, a D Safety Grade and #103 of 132 in Georgia. Its police reported 5.9 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 Thomasville?
5.9 violent and 31.7 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Georgia reports 3.9 and 21.4; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Who polices Thomasville?
Thomasville’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Thomasville”. 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.