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How Safe is Duluth? One List Says 6th Safest in Georgia

Real estate website Movoto.com ranked the cities based on 2012 FBI statistics.

Duluth, Ga., is a pretty safe place to live.

But you already knew that. It's one of the reasons you live here.

The people at Movoto, the real estate brokerage website that frequently produces such lists, agrees.

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In its Top 10 list of Safest Places in Georgia, Duluth was listed No. 6. Johns Creek in north Fulton County is No. 1.

To compile the list, Movoto looked at 2012 FBI crime stats for places with populations over 10,000.

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This is what Movoto had to say about Duluth:

β€œDuluth had the ninth lowest crime overall, but there was more to it than that. The seventh lowest property crime, with only 83 vehicle thefts and 290 burglaries per 100,000 people, definitely was one of the major factors in this place ranking sixth on our overall safety list.

The other major factor was the no murders reported in 2012 and only four rapes per 100,000 people, which was some of the lowest on our list.

Those numbers all mean that locals in Duluth have a very safe 1 in 47 chance of being the victim of a crime, with it likely being a non-violent one.”


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