Crime in Port Wentworth, Georgia
Major crime in Port Wentworth is 67% below the U.S. rate per resident: 62% lower for persons crimes and 68% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.6% 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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Murder stands out most, at 44% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Port Wentworth 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 Port Wentworth
The middle half of Port Wentworth residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 20 and 53; the typical (median) resident's is 25. The citywide figure (33) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5057.4%
- 50–10042.6%
- 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.
Highest on Friday and Saturday nights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 8.6% 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.
Port Wentworth against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
1,895 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Port Wentworth; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Port Wentworth has a higher major-crime index than 4 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Rincon (7 mi), is 13% below Port Wentworth's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Port Wentworth
What are the most common crimes in Port Wentworth?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 36 a year), aggravated assault (about 17 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 14 a year). Compared with the U.S., murder stands out most: 44% above 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. Port Wentworth's figures add up its 6 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Port Wentworth's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 26.9% 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: 18,960. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Port Wentworth, Georgia." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ga/port-wentworth
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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