In the heart of the South, these places in Georgia stand out as a beacon for those seeking a warm climate, peace of mind, and safety. Despite its bustling urban regions like Atlanta and Savannah, Georgia holds treasures of tranquility and security within its many smaller cities. Safety is a prime factor when considering a place to call home, so we researched the safest places in Georgia.
Using the most recent FBI crime data, we determined the safest places in Georgia based on property and violent crime rates per capita. We limited the analysis to the cities in Georgia with a population of more than 5,000 to keep things a bit more peaches to peaches.
What are the safest cities to live in Georgia? Georgia ranks 27th for safety in America according to our most recent rankings, so let's take a look at the safest cities in the Peach State.
20 violent / 0 property per 100k
Located in
Chatham County, Georgia
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16 violent / 208 property per 100k
Senoia, a city with deep historical roots dating back to its establishment in the 1860s, is situated just 35 minutes south of Atlanta in Coweta County. Despite being part of the bustling Atlanta metro area, Senoia boasts a high safety rating, holding the second spot as one of Georgia's safest cities.
With a population of 6,263, it reports low crime rates, including a 15/100k people per capita rate for violent crimes. The city's commitment to safety is evident, with only 1 violent incidents and 13 property crimes recorded, securing its third safest and third safest positions for violent and property crime rates respectively statewide.
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5 violent / 485 property per 100k
Located in
Cherokee County, Georgia
Hope springs eternal in Holly Springs -- the third safest place in Georgia.
Residents here know it's safe as it has the ninth safest property crime rate in the state which means no one steals your holly as you kiss underneath it.
Holly Springs is located south of the center of Cherokee County.
Data | Crime | Cost of living | Movers
0 violent / 532 property per 100k
Located in
Gwinnett County, Georgia
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55 violent / 198 property per 100k
Located in
Columbia County, Georgia
Let's take a walk through the peach grove into Grovetown -- Georgia's fifth safest city.
A low rate of violent crime lands Grovetown in this spot, but an slight uptick in property crime caused it to drop a couple of places in the ranking.
It is part of the Augusta metropolitan area and the Central Savannah River Area.
Data | Crime | Cost of living | Movers
36 violent / 457 property per 100k
Located in
Jackson County, Georgia
When a city is one of the safest in a state, it's no surprise that people want to live there. Well people seem to REALLY want to live in Jefferson, because the population has nearly tripled since 2000.
Jefferson ranked better in safety this year than it did the previous year, with a decently low rate of violent crime and an impressively low rate of property crime. In terms of potential for property damage or crime, Hurricane Shoals Park sounds a lot scarier than any would-be burglars.
Jefferson is located in Jackson County, about an hour drive northeast of Atlanta.
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50 violent / 461 property per 100k
Located in
Fayette County, Georgia
Tyrone may only come in 5th place overall on this list, but the city has the second lowest rate of violent crime in the whole state. There was only 1 violent crime reported in the last year of available data, giving Tyrone a rate of violent crime about 28 times lower than the national average. So whether you find a four-leaf clover at Shamrock Park or not, you'll be pretty lucky to be in Tyrone.
Plus, being just 30 miles southwest of downtown Atlanta means you'll never be bored!
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36 violent / 537 property per 100k
Located in
Fulton County, Georgia
Johns Creek lost its top spot on the list -- but don't feel bad. The city of over 85,000 people has the lowest property crime rate in the state.
So even though Milton stole the top spot, it won't steal Johns wallet. See what I did there.
In 2017 Johns Creek ranked third on the USA TODAY list of "50 best cities to live in" and it earned a 9.5 on our SnackAbility Score.
Data | Crime | Cost of living | Movers
60 violent / 458 property per 100k
22 violent / 816 property per 100k
This seems like a good as any to warn you that I will be making a lot of peach puns this post.
Get ready.
Peachtree City didn't fall from the safety tree -- it's the tenth safest city in Georgia thanks to a low occurrence of violent crime. The Atlanta suburb also has peachy top ten ranking when it comes to property crime.
So your peaches can sleep safe and sound in their tree fort within Peachtree City.
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Compare the top ten
Pick a metric. The bars rescale. The red line is Georgia's statewide median. Lower is safer.
Georgia statewide median: 243
Georgia statewide median: 1,949
Georgia statewide median: 3
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Methodology: How we calculated the safest cities in Georgia for 2026
While there are surveys and public polls on what cities in Georgia are the safest, we wanted to rely on something other than speculation and opinion. Instead, we looked at the hard numbers from the FBI's most recent crime report in Georgia.
Specifically, we used Saturday Night Science to analyze the FBI's Uniform Crime Report, which summarizes the number of property and violent crimes in each city annually. We used two criteria:
- Violent crimes per capita (murders, assaults, rapes, armed robberies)
- Property crimes per capita (thefts, burglaries, motor vehicle thefts)
For example, there were 49 crimes committed in Savannah, with a reported population of 241,780. That means the number of crimes per capita is 0.0002, which translates into a 1 in 4,934 chance of being the victim of a crime.
We only looked at Georgia cities that have populations of more than 5,000. This filter left us with 103 of the biggest cities in Georgia to rank.
We ranked each city for each criterion from 1 to 103 where 1 in any particular category is the safest.
Next, we averaged each place's two criteria to create a Safety Index. We crowned the place with the lowest overall Safety Score, "The Safest Place In Georgia," with any ties going to the bigger city.
The safest city in Georgia, based on our criteria, is Savannah. The most dangerous city in Georgia? College Park, where residents had a 1 in 11 chance of being the victim of a crime.
This article has been update for 2026. This report marks our eleventh time ranking the safest places to live in Georgia. All the data comes from the FBI's Crime In The USA 2024 report.
Summary
Summary: The Safest Cities In The Peach State
Looking at the data, you can tell that Savannah is as safe as they come in Georgia, according to science and data.
But as most Georgia residents would agree, almost every place here has its safe and not safe parts. So just make sure you're informed ahead of time.
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Where Are The Safest Cities In Georgia For 2026?
Click any column to sort. All 103 ranked Georgia cities.
| Rank | City | Population | Violent / 100k | Property / 100k | Murders / 100k | Murders |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Savannah, GA | 241,780 | 20 | 0 | 9 | 23 |
| 2 | Senoia, GA | 6,263 | 15 | 207 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | Holly Springs, GA | 20,625 | 4 | 484 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | Auburn, GA | 10,527 | 0 | 531 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | Grovetown, GA | 18,169 | 55 | 198 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | Jefferson, GA | 16,643 | 36 | 456 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | Tyrone, GA | 8,025 | 49 | 461 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | Johns Creek, GA | 81,056 | 35 | 536 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | Palmetto, GA | 5,024 | 59 | 457 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | Peachtree City, GA | 40,820 | 22 | 815 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | Milton, GA | 41,603 | 93 | 449 | 0 | 0 |
| 12 | Rincon, GA | 11,833 | 84 | 532 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | Dallas, GA | 15,276 | 98 | 582 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | Flowery Branch, GA | 12,402 | 72 | 838 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | Temple, GA | 6,836 | 58 | 980 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | Woodstock, GA | 39,613 | 55 | 1,024 | 2 | 1 |
| 17 | Loganville, GA | 17,366 | 63 | 881 | 0 | 0 |
| 18 | Acworth, GA | 22,364 | 26 | 1,202 | 0 | 0 |
| 19 | Braselton, GA | 16,240 | 123 | 665 | 6 | 1 |
| 20 | Fairburn, GA | 16,784 | 101 | 1,042 | 5 | 1 |
| 21 | Jasper, GA | 5,298 | 75 | 1,189 | 0 | 0 |
| 22 | Richmond Hill, GA | 19,051 | 115 | 1,118 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | Canton, GA | 38,085 | 170 | 758 | 0 | 0 |
| 24 | Kingsland, GA | 21,064 | 147 | 1,106 | 4 | 1 |
| 25 | Roswell, GA | 91,789 | 160 | 1,020 | 2 | 2 |
| 26 | Hampton, GA | 9,440 | 254 | 338 | 0 | 0 |
| 27 | Byron, GA | 6,277 | 159 | 1,067 | 0 | 0 |
| 28 | Eatonton, GA | 6,661 | 120 | 1,351 | 0 | 0 |
| 29 | Adairsville, GA | 5,107 | 117 | 1,468 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 | Pooler, GA | 30,962 | 106 | 1,689 | 0 | 0 |
| 31 | Sandy Springs, GA | 105,580 | 139 | 1,460 | 0 | 1 |
| 32 | Duluth, GA | 32,511 | 169 | 1,193 | 0 | 0 |
| 33 | Bremen, GA | 7,879 | 101 | 1,840 | 0 | 0 |
| 34 | Kennesaw, GA | 35,138 | 253 | 845 | 5 | 2 |
| 35 | Port Wentworth, GA | 15,911 | 169 | 1,288 | 6 | 1 |
| 36 | Winder, GA | 20,117 | 198 | 1,173 | 0 | 0 |
| 37 | Perry, GA | 25,159 | 155 | 1,740 | 0 | 0 |
| 38 | Carrollton, GA | 28,124 | 156 | 1,770 | 0 | 0 |
| 39 | Sylvester, GA | 5,379 | 204 | 1,301 | 18 | 1 |
| 40 | Alpharetta, GA | 67,788 | 249 | 1,152 | 1 | 1 |
| 41 | Camilla, GA | 5,063 | 177 | 1,501 | 0 | 0 |
| 42 | Smyrna, GA | 56,700 | 227 | 1,312 | 3 | 2 |
| 43 | St. Marys, GA | 19,882 | 291 | 1,136 | 5 | 1 |
| 44 | Madison, GA | 5,154 | 135 | 2,192 | 0 | 0 |
| 45 | Decatur, GA | 24,112 | 132 | 2,268 | 0 | 0 |
| 46 | Oakwood, GA | 7,029 | 170 | 1,949 | 14 | 1 |
| 47 | Snellville, GA | 22,586 | 185 | 2,072 | 4 | 1 |
| 48 | Cartersville, GA | 25,543 | 262 | 1,687 | 3 | 1 |
| 49 | Dalton, GA | 34,537 | 243 | 1,902 | 0 | 0 |
| 50 | Suwanee, GA | 23,585 | 127 | 3,107 | 4 | 1 |
| 51 | Monroe, GA | 16,241 | 320 | 1,631 | 18 | 3 |
| 52 | Marietta, GA | 63,354 | 298 | 1,810 | 9 | 6 |
| 53 | Fayetteville, GA | 20,451 | 156 | 2,542 | 9 | 2 |
| 54 | Lilburn, GA | 16,426 | 176 | 2,276 | 6 | 1 |
| 55 | Fort Oglethorpe, GA | 10,679 | 149 | 2,977 | 0 | 0 |
| 56 | Rockmart, GA | 5,274 | 303 | 2,180 | 0 | 0 |
| 57 | Cedartown, GA | 10,338 | 367 | 1,992 | 0 | 0 |
| 58 | Cairo, GA | 9,953 | 241 | 2,481 | 20 | 2 |
| 59 | Lawrenceville, GA | 31,160 | 324 | 2,172 | 9 | 3 |
| 60 | Toccoa, GA | 9,348 | 224 | 2,759 | 21 | 2 |
| 61 | Newnan, GA | 45,655 | 551 | 1,743 | 6 | 3 |
| 62 | South Fulton, GA | 112,441 | 470 | 1,907 | 22 | 25 |
| 63 | Brookhaven, GA | 58,329 | 303 | 2,240 | 8 | 5 |
| 64 | Stone Mountain, GA | 6,505 | 538 | 1,875 | 0 | 0 |
| 65 | Norcross, GA | 18,213 | 280 | 2,498 | 10 | 2 |
| 66 | Thomaston, GA | 9,893 | 303 | 2,436 | 20 | 2 |
| 67 | Stockbridge, GA | 35,352 | 384 | 2,195 | 0 | 0 |
| 68 | Statesboro, GA | 34,788 | 370 | 2,239 | 8 | 3 |
| 69 | Dunwoody , GA | 51,752 | 224 | 3,273 | 1 | 1 |
| 70 | Locust Grove, GA | 11,978 | 258 | 2,963 | 0 | 0 |
| 71 | Albany, GA | 66,169 | 823 | 1,608 | 25 | 17 |
| 72 | Athens-Clarke County, GA | 129,765 | 406 | 2,276 | 3 | 5 |
| 73 | Conyers, GA | 20,274 | 374 | 2,476 | 0 | 0 |
| 74 | Mcdonough, GA | 33,140 | 334 | 2,625 | 3 | 1 |
| 75 | Gainesville, GA | 48,944 | 488 | 2,300 | 12 | 6 |
| 76 | Columbus, GA | 201,061 | 603 | 2,235 | 12 | 26 |
| 77 | Hiram, GA | 5,492 | 218 | 4,952 | 0 | 0 |
| 78 | Blakely, GA | 5,178 | 791 | 2,085 | 19 | 1 |
| 79 | Bainbridge, GA | 14,402 | 486 | 3,145 | 13 | 2 |
| 80 | Hinesville, GA | 36,562 | 686 | 2,431 | 2 | 1 |
| 81 | Forest Park, GA | 19,232 | 571 | 2,865 | 31 | 6 |
| 82 | Fitzgerald, GA | 8,922 | 392 | 3,362 | 11 | 1 |
| 83 | Eastman, GA | 5,538 | 306 | 5,362 | 0 | 0 |
| 84 | Warner Robins, GA | 85,900 | 665 | 2,980 | 8 | 7 |
| 85 | Milledgeville, GA | 16,302 | 613 | 3,275 | 0 | 0 |
| 86 | Douglasville, GA | 40,595 | 532 | 4,636 | 7 | 3 |
| 87 | Valdosta, GA | 54,896 | 555 | 4,078 | 7 | 4 |
| 88 | Rome, GA | 38,257 | 781 | 3,194 | 7 | 3 |
| 89 | Chamblee, GA | 32,423 | 626 | 3,553 | 12 | 4 |
| 90 | Thomasville, GA | 18,457 | 660 | 3,283 | 5 | 1 |
| 91 | Covington, GA | 14,825 | 647 | 3,817 | 6 | 1 |
| 92 | Garden City, GA | 10,363 | 810 | 3,213 | 0 | 0 |
| 93 | Lagrange, GA | 32,833 | 630 | 4,480 | 3 | 1 |
| 94 | Doraville, GA | 10,837 | 562 | 5,222 | 0 | 0 |
| 95 | Morrow, GA | 6,307 | 554 | 6,484 | 0 | 0 |
| 96 | Griffin, GA | 24,238 | 965 | 3,321 | 12 | 3 |
| 97 | Vidalia, GA | 10,724 | 718 | 4,671 | 37 | 4 |
| 98 | Cordele, GA | 9,762 | 1,106 | 4,220 | 10 | 1 |
| 99 | Americus, GA | 15,541 | 1,653 | 3,931 | 32 | 5 |
| 100 | Moultrie, GA | 14,546 | 1,161 | 4,908 | 13 | 2 |
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