Crime in Elberton, Georgia
Major crime in Elberton is 1.7 times the U.S. rate per resident: 2.4 times for persons crimes and 1.5 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.3% from a year earlier.
Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this
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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Drugs and alcohol stands out most, at 4.0 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Elberton for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Property crimes
Social disorder
How crime varies across Elberton
The middle half of Elberton residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 71 and 161; the typical (median) resident's is 125. The citywide figure (169) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–10046.2%
- 100–20037.1%
- 200–4000.0%
- 400+16.7%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
About the same at every time of week
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 7.3% in a year; across Georgia it fell 10.9%
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.
Elberton against U.S. places with 2,000 to 5,000 residents
136 of the 1,761 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Elberton; the middle of the group is 58. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Elberton has a higher major-crime index than 7 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Calhoun Falls (16 mi), is 48% below Elberton's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Elberton
What are the most common crimes in Elberton?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 35 a year), shoplifting (about 28 a year) and aggravated assault (about 27 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 4.0 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. Elberton's figures add up its 5 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Elberton 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: 4,080. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Elberton, Georgia." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ga/elberton
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