Crime & Safety in Dunwoody
Dunwoody's crime picture shows a real, disclosed disagreement between its two most-cited third-party sources -- CrimeGrade.org reads it as close to the national norm overall (with notably strong violent-crime-specific marks), while NeighborhoodScout reads it as having one of the highest crime rates in the country for a place its size. Both are disclosed by name rather than resolved into one verdict.
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Learn moreCrimeGrade.org's mixed-but-generally-favorable read
CrimeGrade.org gives Dunwoody an overall C grade, placing it in the 46th percentile (about average -- ahead of 46% of US cities, behind 54%), with an overall crime rate of 25.29 per 1,000 residents. Violent crime specifically earns a notably better B+ grade, with a violent crime rate of 2.172 per 1,000 -- lower than the national norm, per CrimeGrade's own characterization.
NeighborhoodScout's much less favorable read
NeighborhoodScout instead cites an overall crime rate of 35 per 1,000 residents for Dunwoody, describing it as "one of the highest crime rates in America compared to all communities of all sizes," with a roughly 1-in-29 chance of being a victim of violent or property crime in a given year.
These two sources genuinely disagree -- and diverge from this dataset's Suwanee comparison
CrimeGrade's and NeighborhoodScout's readings of Dunwoody point in different directions on overall severity, similar in kind to the sharper disagreements this dataset documents for some other markets (e.g., Katy, TX) -- a real, worth-disclosing split rather than a rounding difference. Notably, this is a different, less favorable overall pattern than this dataset finds for Suwanee, where both sources agree on an above-average-safety read; Dunwoody's picture is genuinely more mixed.
Check a specific address directly, and expect real block-level variance
As with any city, block-level and neighborhood-level variance is real and can be masked by any citywide statistic from either source. Per site policy, no specific area is named as less safe here -- check a specific address directly with both CrimeGrade.org and NeighborhoodScout, and factor in that the two tools may give meaningfully different reads for the same address given their disagreement.
Key takeaways
- CrimeGrade.org gives Dunwoody an overall C (46th percentile, 25.29 per 1,000) but a notably better B+ for violent crime specifically (2.172 per 1,000, below the national norm).
- NeighborhoodScout instead cites an overall crime rate of 35 per 1,000, describing Dunwoody as having one of the highest crime rates in America for a place its size, with roughly a 1-in-29 chance of victimization.
- These two named sources genuinely disagree on overall severity -- and this is a notably more mixed picture than this dataset finds for Suwanee, where both major sources agree on above-average safety.
- Check a specific address directly with both sources before drawing a conclusion; no specific area is named as less safe here, per site policy.
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