Report: Johns Creek Safest Place in Georgia

Johns Creek residents don’t have to worry about crime becoming a problem in their neighborhoods.

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

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 complete list includes:

1. Johns Creek

2. Acworth

3. Canton

4. Kennesaw

5. Grovetown

6. Duluth

7. Suwanee

8. Dallas

9. Woodstock

10. Loganville

In addition to not having any murders in 2012, the city of Johns Creek only had four rapes, 20 robberies and 30 assaults per 100,000 people.

“What pushed it over the top was that it had merely 20 vehicle thefts per 100,000 in 2012, which is astonishing for its size,” Movoto noted. “Compared to Augusta, which had over 600 vehicle thefts per 100,000, it’s obvious that this spot is safe for people and property alike.”

Tell us, Johns Creek: what do you think of the list?

(Photo credit: Patch file/Johns Creek Police Department)