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 Data

Year

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 2005

Burglary

2,477

3,331

3,342

3,924

4,421

5,106

Theft

9,648

9,705

9,731

9,393

10,948

11,407

Auto Theft

1,703

1,712

1,664

2,078

2,559

2,786

Total

13,828

14,748

14,737

15,400

17,928

19,299

C2. 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 13,748

D1. 2000-2005, Gwinnett County Population

Crime Rate Population 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005

Statistical 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 639,713 659,895 677,809 693,850 708,231



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