Crime in Gainesville, Georgia
Major crime in Gainesville is 11% below the U.S. rate per resident: about the same for persons crimes and 13% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 6.9% 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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Rape / sexual assault stands out most, at 1.7 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Gainesville 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 Gainesville
The middle half of Gainesville residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 46 and 105; the typical (median) resident's is 67. The citywide figure (89) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5031.6%
- 50–10043.1%
- 100–20013.7%
- 200–40011.6%
- 400+0.0%
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 6.9% 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.
Gainesville against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
283 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Gainesville; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Gainesville 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, Oakwood (5 mi), is 6% below Gainesville's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Gainesville
What are the most common crimes in Gainesville?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 294 a year), shoplifting (about 155 a year) and aggravated assault (about 114 a year). Compared with the U.S., rape / sexual assault stands out most: 1.7 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. Gainesville's figures add up its 25 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Gainesville has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 52.6% 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: 52,618. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Gainesville, Georgia." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ga/gainesville
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Oakwood5 mi84
- Flowery Branch9 mi49
- Braselton12 mi27
- Buford15 mi90
- Sugar Hill17 mi34
- Cumming18 mi21
- Jefferson18 mi23
- Dahlonega19 mi40