Crime & Safety in Suwanee
Suwanee's crime picture reads favorably across both major third-party sources reviewed -- CrimeGrade.org and NeighborhoodScout both place Suwanee above the national average for safety, though by different margins, a real but modest disagreement rather than the sharp, opposite-direction splits seen in some other markets in this dataset.
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Learn moreCrimeGrade.org's favorable read
CrimeGrade.org gives Suwanee an overall B+ grade and places it in the 76th percentile for safety, with an overall crime rate of 16.45 per 1,000 residents. Property crime specifically earns an A grade (88th percentile, 6.276 per 1,000), and violent crime earns an A- grade (84th percentile, 1.737 per 1,000) -- a genuinely strong read across all three measures.
NeighborhoodScout's more moderate, but still favorable, read
NeighborhoodScout cites an overall crime rate of 33 per 1,000 residents for Suwanee and a Crime Index score of approximately 63, meaning Suwanee is safer than about 63% of US cities by this methodology -- a real, more moderate read than CrimeGrade's, but one that still points in the same above-average-safety direction rather than the opposite.
Both sources agree on direction -- a genuine point of consistency in this dataset
Unlike several other markets in this project where CrimeGrade and NeighborhoodScout disagree sharply (sometimes in opposite directions), both sources here point toward Suwanee reading as safer than the national average, differing mainly in how strongly. This is worth noting as a genuine point of cross-source agreement, not assumed to always hold for every market.
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 safer or less safe here -- check a specific address directly with both CrimeGrade.org and NeighborhoodScout before drawing conclusions about a particular neighborhood.
Key takeaways
- CrimeGrade.org gives Suwanee an overall B+ (76th percentile, 16.45 per 1,000), with an A for property crime (88th percentile) and an A- for violent crime (84th percentile).
- NeighborhoodScout cites an overall crime rate of 33 per 1,000 and a Crime Index of about 63, meaning Suwanee is safer than roughly 63% of US cities -- a more moderate but still above-average-safety read.
- Both major sources agree Suwanee reads as safer than the national average, differing on the margin rather than the direction -- a genuine point of cross-source consistency in this dataset.
- Check a specific address directly with both sources before drawing conclusions about a particular neighborhood; no specific area is named as less safe here, per site policy.
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