Website ranks McDonough 22nd safest city in Georgia

MCDONOUGH — McDonough ranks No. 22 on the 2016 list of safest cities in Georgia, according to public records database BackgroundChecks.org.

The list was compiled based on Federal Bureau of Investigation violent crime statistics and BackgroundChecks.org’s research data. According to the website, rates are normalized per 100,000 residents with the state average being 377 for violent crime and 3,281 for property crime, calculated by dividing the population by the number of crimes per 100,000.

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