Crime in Sandy Springs, Georgia
Major crime in Sandy Springs is 21% below the U.S. rate per resident: 64% lower for persons crimes and 11% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.7% 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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Other larceny stands out most, at 19% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Sandy Springs 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 Sandy Springs
The middle half of Sandy Springs residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 35 and 83; the typical (median) resident's is 54. The citywide figure (79) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5044.8%
- 50–10033.9%
- 100–20013.1%
- 200–4005.5%
- 400+2.6%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 8.7% 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.
Sandy Springs against U.S. places with 100,000 to 250,000 residents
194 of the 268 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Sandy Springs; the middle of the group is 109. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Sandy Springs has a higher major-crime index than 1 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Dunwoody (3 mi), is 2.1 times Sandy Springs's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Sandy Springs
What are the most common crimes in Sandy Springs?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 610 a year), shoplifting (about 266 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 238 a year). Compared with the U.S., other larceny stands out most: 19% 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. Sandy Springs's figures add up its 99 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Sandy Springs's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 11.5% 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: 102,457. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Sandy Springs, Georgia." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ga/sandy-springs
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Dunwoody3 mi163
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- Brookhaven5 mi102
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