Report: Canton 3rd Safest Place in Georgia

Canton residents don’t have to worry too much about crime becoming a problem in their city.

That’s according to Movoto, a real estate blog that ranked the city as the one of the safest places in the Peach State.

Canton came in third place.

The blog compiled its 10 Safest Places in Georgia list by first naming the biggest places in the state that have over 10,000 people. It then gathered data from the 2012 FBI Uniform Crime Report in the categories of murder, rape, robbery, assault, theft, burglary and vehicle theft.

Those crimes were then divided into four categories: murders, property crimes, violent crimes and total crimes. Movoto omitted places that did not have crime data, which left it with 73 places to work with.

After that task was completed, Movoto found crime rates for each place per 100,000 people “in order to fairly compare big and small places against each other,” the company said. The next step was to rank each place in each category from one to 73. Scores closest to one were deemed the safest

“Finally, we scored each category so that murders, violent crimes, and property crimes accounted for 30 percent of the overall score, where total crimes made up 10 (percent),” Movoto stated.

It also averaged the adjusted rankings into one overall Big Deal Score, where the lowest score was our safest place.

The top 10 list includes:

1. Johns Creek

2. Acworth

3. Canton

4. Kennesaw

5. Grovetown

6. Duluth

7. Suwanee

8. Dallas

9. Woodstock

10. Loganville

Canton had no murders reported in 2012, but that’s not the only good news.

The city had the seventh lowest violent crime and the fourth lowest property crime on our list, the blog notes.

“For a small place, the 17 rapes and 30 robberies and assaults per 100,000 people may seem like quite a bit, but it’s far better than Augusta, which had 43 rapes and 114 robberies per 100,000,” Movoto stated. ”People living in this safe little city had only 1 one in 55 chance of being the victim of a crime.”

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