Bay Minette, AL carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 18% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Bay Minette, AL shows violent crime at 413.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,632 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 18% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
C safety grade
413.9/100K violent
1632/100K property
+18% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Bay Minette, AL
Comparable rate records
Bay Minette's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Alabama cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Bay Minette's 413.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Carrollton (414.5), Cedar Bluff (417.1), Clayton (409.6), Guin (421.7). 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.
Position in the state cohort
Bay Minette sits mid-pack among comparable Alabama cities
At 413.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Bay Minette ranks 83 of 263 — above 180 of the 262 other Alabama cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +93.8% against the cohort median of 213.5. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 20.2% of the 173 Part I offenses reported in Bay Minette for 2024, against a median of 13.8% across comparable Alabama cities — a gap of 6.4 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 485.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 413.9 in 2024 (-14.7%). The highest observed value was 694.1 in 2023 and the lowest 413.9 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 83.3% of reported property offenses in Bay Minette, against a cohort median of 74.2%. The remainder is burglary (13) and motor vehicle theft (10). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Bay Minette'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.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Bay Minette's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 17.3 Census sq mi, Bay Minette logged 8 property and 2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Bay Minette's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (66% of 173 offenses; mix index 4,776).
Violent offenses are 20% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (17.3 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-40.4%
694.1 → 413.9/100K
Property Crime Rate
-23%
2118.2 → 1632/100K
Property offenses lead Bay Minette's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
138
1632
1711
Larceny-Theft
115
1360
-
Burglary
13
153.7
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
10
118.3
-
Arson
0
0
-
Violent Crime
35
413.9
352
Aggravated Assault
28
331.1
-
Robbery
3
35.5
-
Murder
2
23.7
-
Rape
2
23.7
-
Bay Minette Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Bay Minette property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Bay Minette Police Department
Reporting agency for Bay Minette NIBRS-participating
Bay Minette Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Bay Minette's 173 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.
Similar-Size Cities in Alabama
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In 2024, Bay Minette reported 35 violent crimes and 138 property crimes, for a total of 173 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Bay Minette?
From 2023 to 2024, Bay Minette's violent crime rate decreased by 40.4%, and the property crime rate decreased by 23%.
What is the most common crime in Bay Minette?
The most common crime type in Bay Minette is larceny-theft, accounting for 66.5% of all reported crimes (115 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Bay Minette is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Bay Minette, AL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.