Domestic Violence Statistics
- 1,493 known family violence-related fatalities in Georgia totaled 1,493; a 57% increase from 2012-2021.
- 212 known family violence related fatalities in Georgia in 2021
- There were 42,031 family violence incidents reported to law enforcement in 2020
- In 2020, 69% of victims in family violence incidents reported to law enforcement were female and 31% were male
- In 2020, the overall "extension rate," or the rate at which Emergency TPOs were extended into a longer-term TPO (6-month, 12-month, 3-year), was 39%.
- There were 27,894 family violence and stalking Temporary Protective Orders (TPOs) issued in 2020
- There was a 49% increase in family violence-related fatalities from 2020 to 2021
- Family violence-related murder-suicide fatalities increased 76% from 2020 to 2021.
- In 2021, firearms were the cause of death in 85% of all family violence-related fatalities
- In 2021, there were 114,640 crisis calls to Georgia's certified family violence and sexual assault agencies, a 20% increase from 2020 crisis calls
- In 2021, 95% of family violence-related murder-suicide incidents were perpetrated by a male and 5% were perpetrated by a female
- A firearm was the cause of death in 94% of all family violence-related murder-suicide fatalities in 2021
Georgia ranks 10th in the nation for the rate at which women are killed by men.
930 Georgians were killed by firearm in domestic violence incidents between 2010 and 2019.
The vast majority - roughly 70% - of domestic violence deaths in Georgia each year are committed using firearms.
*Stats were provided by Georgia Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Georgia Commission of Family Violence*