Auburn, AL has a A safety grade (81/100) with a violent crime rate of 108 per 100,000, 69% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
At 83,756 residents, Auburn is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against AL and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Auburn, AL carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 69% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Auburn, AL shows violent crime at 107.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 979 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 69% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade A from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Auburn's 107.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Powell (107.8), Fairhope (108.6), Vernon (109.6), Linden (109.7). These are same-year agency submissions that pass the same completeness screen, not a claim that the cities have identical conditions. They make the cohort position above checkable against named records instead of a generic state average.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 172.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 107.5 in 2024 (-37.7%). The highest observed value was 179.8 in 2023 and the lowest 107.5 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 107.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Auburn ranks 198 of 263 — above 65 of the 262 other Alabama cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -50.5% against the cohort median of 217.1. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 89.0% of reported property offenses in Auburn, against a cohort median of 74.2%. The remainder is burglary (33) and motor vehicle theft (57). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 9.9% of the 910 Part I offenses reported in Auburn for 2024, against a median of 13.9% across comparable Alabama cities — a gap of 4.0 points. Offense mix is shaped by which agencies report and how incidents are classified as well as by the underlying offenses, so it describes the reported record rather than a settled difference in conditions.
Property counts dominate Auburn's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; cities that fail the completeness test stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Across 62.9 Census sq mi, Auburn logged 13 property and 1.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Auburn's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (80% of 910 offenses; mix index 6,544).
Violent offenses are only 10% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Auburn offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (62.9 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 820 | 979 |
| Larceny-Theft | 730 | 871.6 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 57 | 68.1 |
| Burglary | 33 | 39.4 |
| Arson | 1 | 1.2 |
| Violent Crime | 90 | 107.5 |
| Aggravated Assault | 66 | 78.8 |
| Rape | 16 | 19.1 |
| Robbery | 8 | 9.6 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 67,814 | 172.5 | 1157.6 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 70,003 | 131.4 | 1305.7 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 80,759 | 135 | 1197.4 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 81,755 | 179.8 | 1154.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 83,756 | 107.5 | 979 |
Auburn Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Auburn's 910 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
This agency reports via NIBRS, the incident-based system that captures more detail per offense (multiple crimes per incident, victim/offender data) than the older summary counts.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Alabama cities closest to Auburn in population. Their populations run from 38,323 to 113,834, against 83,756 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Auburn sits at 107.5/100K violent (grade A); the Alabama cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Auburn at 107.5/100K violent and 979/100K property - matched below outside Alabama (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
107.5/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
979/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-40.2% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Auburn reported 90 violent crimes and 820 property crimes, for a total of 910 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Auburn's violent crime rate decreased by 40.2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 15.2%.
The most common crime type in Auburn is larceny-theft, accounting for 80.2% of all reported crimes (730 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Auburn's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Large-city rate methodology for how Auburn's large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Auburn, AL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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