CrimeMetric

Crime in Blackshear, Georgia

Major crime in Blackshear is 36% below the U.S. rate per resident: 37% lower for persons crimes and 36% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.9% from a year earlier.

Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this

Major crime
64
36% below the U.S. rate
26% below the Georgia rate
down 7.9% in a year
Persons crimes
63
37% below the U.S. rate
31% below the Georgia rate
down 4.4% in a year
Property crimes
64
36% below the U.S. rate
25% below the Georgia rate
down 8.7% in a year
Social disorder
97
about the U.S. rate
9% above the Georgia rate
down 6.8% in a year

Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.

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Crime by type

Drugs and alcohol stands out most, at 2.0 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Blackshear for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

Neighborhoods in Blackshear

Blackshear is made up of 4 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 68; the middle half of residents live where it is between 62 and 68.

Map of Blackshear, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the key's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5016.2%
  • 50–10083.8%
  • 100–2000.0%
  • 200–4000.0%
  • 400+0.0%

Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.

When it happens

Highest on weekday daytimes

Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm77
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am52
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm64
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am51
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 7.9% in a year; across Georgia it fell 10.9%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-7.9%GA -10.9%-10.7%GA -9.9%
Persons crimes-4.4%GA -3.4%+3.5%GA +1.2%
Property crimes-8.7%GA -12.5%-13.8%GA -12.6%
Social disorder-6.8%GA -6.9%-4.7%GA -2.9%

Change in expected crimes, with Georgia as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.

Similar-size places

Blackshear against U.S. places with 2,000 to 5,000 residents

778 of the 1,761 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Blackshear; the middle of the group is 58. The 9 nearest in population:

Laurel, DE4,470171
Hartwell, GA4,468104
Angels, CA4,47588
Blackshear, GA4,46964

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.

Nearby places

Blackshear has a higher major-crime index than 3 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Waycross (9 mi), is 3.2 times Blackshear's rate.

Waycross9 mi206
Hazlehurst44 mi145
Baxley32 mi136
Alma19 mi134
Jesup29 mi85
Blackshear64
Douglas37 mi60
Homerville38 mi50
Folkston35 mi26

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.

Questions about crime in Blackshear

What are the most common crimes in Blackshear?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 19 a year), aggravated assault (about 7 a year) and shoplifting (about 7 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 2.0 times the U.S. rate per resident.

How we calculated this

Each police agency's crimes, as reported to the FBI, are spread across the census block groups it serves using population, jobs, points of interest and, where available, local incident records. Blackshear's figures add up its 4 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Blackshear has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
  • 0.0% of residents live in block groups whose estimate has high confidence (80% interval within about 5x).
  • Rates are per resident, so places where many people work or visit but few live, such as downtowns, airports and stadiums, can read high.
  • Disorderly conduct and trespassing are modeled, because the FBI records them only through arrests.
  • Residents: 4,469. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Blackshear, Georgia." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ga/blackshear

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100