CrimeMetric

Crime in Fayetteville, Georgia

Major crime in Fayetteville is 22% below the U.S. rate per resident: 55% lower for persons crimes and 15% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.6% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
78
22% below the U.S. rate
11% below the Georgia rate
down 7.6% in a year
Persons crimes
45
55% below the U.S. rate
51% below the Georgia rate
down 7.5% in a year
Property crimes
85
15% below the U.S. rate
about the Georgia rate
down 7.7% in a year
Social disorder
87
13% below the U.S. rate
about the Georgia rate
down 7.9% 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 Fayetteville for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

How crime varies across Fayetteville

The middle half of Fayetteville residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 37 and 93; the typical (median) resident's is 44. The citywide figure (78) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Fayetteville, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the bar's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5051.1%
  • 50–10042.7%
  • 100–2000.0%
  • 200–4006.2%
  • 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 6pm91
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am63
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm85
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am64
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 7.6% in a year; across Georgia it fell 10.9%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-7.6%GA -10.9%-9.7%GA -9.9%
Persons crimes-7.5%GA -3.4%+2.9%GA +1.2%
Property crimes-7.7%GA -12.5%-11.2%GA -12.6%
Social disorder-7.9%GA -6.9%-5.1%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

Fayetteville against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents

988 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Fayetteville; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:

Concord, MO18,426121
Bay City, TX18,373108
Fayetteville, GA18,41378
Pinole, CA18,39675
Verona, WI18,39022

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

Nearby places

Fayetteville has a higher major-crime index than 5 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Irondale (6 mi), is 13% below Fayetteville's rate.

Morrow12 mi321
Union City11 mi224
Riverdale9 mi128
Fayetteville78
Jonesboro8 mi71
Irondale6 mi68
Fairburn10 mi62
Lovejoy8 mi56
Hampton11 mi37

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

Questions about crime in Fayetteville

What are the most common crimes in Fayetteville?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 96 a year), shoplifting (about 67 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 31 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. Fayetteville's figures add up its 11 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Fayetteville 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: 18,413. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100