Brighton, AL has a F safety grade (9/100) with a violent crime rate of 2130 per 100,000, 505% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small municipal
Brighton's UCR row covers a small municipal population (2,207). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to AL and U.S. averages.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Brighton, AL is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 505% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Brighton, AL shows violent crime at 2,129.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,356.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 505% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 145.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 2129.6 in 2024 (+1367.8%). The highest observed value was 2776.5 in 2023 and the lowest 145.1 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 47.5% of the 99 Part I offenses reported in Brighton for 2024, against a median of 13.8% across comparable Alabama cities — a gap of 33.6 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 2129.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Brighton ranks 2 of 263 — above 261 of the 262 other Alabama cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +897.3% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Brighton's 2129.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Parrish (1758.0), Bessemer (1743.5), Excel (1526.7), Atmore (1362.4). 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 51.9% of reported property offenses in Brighton, against a cohort median of 74.5%. The remainder is burglary (13) and motor vehicle theft (12). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Brighton's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row keeps violent and property totals in a closer balance. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
On a small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
Across 1.4 Census sq mi, Brighton logged 36.7 property and 33.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Brighton leans on aggravated assault at 37% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,504.
Violent offenses are 47% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a small municipal.
Brighton offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (1.4 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 | 52 | 2356.1 |
| Larceny-Theft | 27 | 1223.4 |
| Burglary | 13 | 589 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 12 | 543.7 |
| Arson | 1 | 45.3 |
| Violent Crime | 47 | 2129.6 |
| Aggravated Assault | 37 | 1676.5 |
| Murder | 5 | 226.6 |
| Robbery | 4 | 181.2 |
| Rape | 1 | 45.3 |
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 2,757 | 145.1 | 72.5 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 2,805 | 606.1 | 926.9 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 2,270 | 1585.9 | 2202.6 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 2,233 | 2776.5 | 3358.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 2,207 | 2129.6 | 2356.1 |
Brighton Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Brighton's 99 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 Brighton in population. Their populations run from 2,145 to 2,262, against 2,207 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Brighton sits at 2,129.6/100K violent (grade F); the Alabama cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Brighton reported 47 violent crimes and 52 property crimes, for a total of 99 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Brighton's violent crime rate decreased by 23.3%, and the property crime rate decreased by 29.9%.
The most common crime type in Brighton is aggravated assault, accounting for 37.4% of all reported crimes (37 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Brighton's FBI UCR Table 8 row (2024) is the only source for the rates above.
With a small population base, per-100,000 rates amplify sparse counts. Incomplete submissions are excluded from rankings. See FBI.gov UCR for the raw Table 8 file.
Disclaimer (small municipal): small-base rates are especially easy to misread. Informational only - not advice. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Micro-municipal rate methodology for how Brighton's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Brighton, AL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
Bulk download: city crime dataset (CSV/JSON)
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