Crime & Safety
10-Year Look at Gwinnett County Crime
Take a look at Gwinnett County crime for 2010, and see how it compares with crime over the past decade.
The Gwinnett County Police Department will soon be releasing its complete annual report for 2010.
Patch recently contacted the department for statiscal crime data, and below we have pulled together data over the past ten years. To see previous annual reports from the department, click here.
In general, the number of calls to the police department has gone down in recent years, with about 432,000 general calls in 2010.That's compared with 530,000 in 2009 and 532,000 in 2008.
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The number of traffic calls has decreased over the previous year, with about 194,000 this past year and about 211,000 in 2009. However, in the time between 2000-2008, the number of traffic calls were lower each year than 2010 or 2009.
Part 1 crimes, or crimes that are tracked by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, are also noted below. There has been a 41.6 percent increase in the number of violent crimes against persons, from a total of 1,089 in 2000 and 1,542 in 2010. However, between 2009 and 2010, violent crimes against persons actually dropped by about 350 incidents.
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For Part 1 property crimes, burglary, theft or larceny and auto theft, there was a significant drop in crimes over the past several years. There were 13,748 Part 1 property crimes in 2010, which brought the department to levels it hadn't seen in a decade. (One exception is in 2009, when there was also a significant dip from previous years, with 13,701 reported.)
Also, important to note is that the population in Gwinnett County has increased by 53 percent over the past decade. And, an increase population can mean a greater chance for more calls to police, more accidents, more crimes against persons, etc.
A. Gwinnett County, 10-Year Statistics, Calls and Auto Accidents
Dispatch Calls Auto Accident DataYear
Traffic
General
Accidents
Fatalities
Injuries
DUI Arrests
2010
194,200
431,839
19,821
54
4,818
2,634
2009
211,497
529,829
23,103
51
3,988
1,953
2008
192,095
532,440
23,971
53
3,906
1,786
2007
184,076
466,767
29,603
65
3,833
1,406
2006
149,241
360,690
29,030
83
4,260
2,132
2005
140,657
373,813
29,734
81
4,417
2,487
2004
159,754
359,362
28,220
79
4,196
2,903
2003
147,819
331,035
26,428
68
3,411
2,107
2002
155,861
319,121
24,973
63
3,974
3,023
2001
141,619
302,040
25,002
69
4,130
3,050
2000
143,237
276,372
24,280
64
4,020
2,790
B. 10-Year, Part 1 Violent Crimes Against Persons
Crime
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
Murder
20
16
16
35
30
31
36
42
33
35
22
Rape
128
93
91
140
159
149
112
89
125
141
161
Robbery
404
592
580
613
745
879
940
1,286
1,246
1,077
739
Ag. Assault
537
594
595
543
673
722
759
761
694
638
620
Total
1,089
1,295
1,282
1,331
1,607
1,781
1,847
2,178
2,098
1,891
1,542
C1. 2000-2005, Part 1 Crimes Against Property
Crime 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005Burglary
2,477
3,331
3,342
3,924
4,421
5,106Theft
9,648
9,705
9,731
9,393
10,948
11,407Auto Theft
1,703
1,712
1,664
2,078
2,559
2,786Total
13,828
14,748
14,737
15,400
17,928
19,299C2. 2006-2010, Part 1 Crimes Against Property
Crime 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Burglary 5,557 5,544 5,778 5,431 5,408 Theft 12,843 9,815 6,346 6,442 6,837 Auto Theft 2,853 2,517 2,086 1,828 1,503 Total 21,253 17,876 14,210 13,701 13,748D1. 2000-2005, Gwinnett County Population
Crime Rate Population 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005Statistical Population*
462,932
517,409
541,056
575,588
592,837
617,088
D2. 2006-2010, Gwinnett County Population
Crime Rate Population 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Statistical Population 639,713 659,895 677,809 693,850 708,231Get more local news delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for free Patch newsletters and alerts.