CrimeMetric

Crime in Vidalia, Georgia

Major crime in Vidalia is 1.7 times the U.S. rate per resident: 24% higher for persons crimes and 1.8 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.0% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
174
1.7 times the U.S. rate
2.0 times the Georgia rate
down 8.0% in a year
Persons crimes
124
24% above the U.S. rate
35% above the Georgia rate
down 4.1% in a year
Property crimes
184
1.8 times the U.S. rate
2.1 times the Georgia rate
down 8.5% in a year
Social disorder
123
23% above the U.S. rate
38% above the Georgia rate
down 5.2% 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

Other larceny stands out most, at 2.7 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Vidalia 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 Vidalia

The middle half of Vidalia residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 69 and 209; the typical (median) resident's is 110. The citywide figure (174) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Vidalia, 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.
  • 0–5012.7%
  • 50–10035.1%
  • 100–20018.7%
  • 200–40026.4%
  • 400+7.1%

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 6pm188
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am165
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm177
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am146
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 8.0% in a year; across Georgia it fell 10.9%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-8.0%GA -10.9%-13.4%GA -9.9%
Persons crimes-4.1%GA -3.4%-0.3%GA +1.2%
Property crimes-8.5%GA -12.5%-15.3%GA -12.6%
Social disorder-5.2%GA -6.9%-3.8%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

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

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

Vidalia, GA13,168174
Kilgore, TX13,163106
Amherst, OH13,16851
Burley, ID13,16649

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

Nearby places

Vidalia has a higher major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Lyons (6 mi), is 89% below Vidalia's rate.

Vidalia174
Hazlehurst26 mi145
Claxton30 mi143
Baxley32 mi136
Swainsboro28 mi125
Metter25 mi60
Reidsville19 mi56
Lyons6 mi20

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

Questions about crime in Vidalia

What are the most common crimes in Vidalia?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 175 a year), shoplifting (about 64 a year) and burglary (about 47 a year). Compared with the U.S., other larceny stands out most: 2.7 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. Vidalia's figures add up its 11 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Vidalia 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: 13,168. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100