Childersburg, AL has a F safety grade (7/100) with a violent crime rate of 761 per 100,000, 116% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Childersburg is a small municipal reporter (4,601 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with AL and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Childersburg, AL is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 116% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Childersburg, AL shows violent crime at 760.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,608.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 116% 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 760.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Childersburg ranks 31 of 263 — above 232 of the 262 other Alabama cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +256.3% 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 Childersburg's 760.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Level Plains (762.1), Mobile (752.0), Roanoke (776.2), Phenix City (777.6). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 22.6% of the 155 Part I offenses reported in Childersburg for 2024, against a median of 13.8% across comparable Alabama cities — a gap of 8.7 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
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 853.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 760.7 in 2024 (-10.9%). The highest observed value was 976.4 in 2023 and the lowest 105.3 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Childersburg'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.
Across 12.3 Census sq mi, Childersburg logged 9.7 property and 2.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Childersburg leans on larceny-theft at 55% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,731.
Violent offenses are 23% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Childersburg offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (12.3 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 120 | 2608.1 |
| Larceny-Theft | 86 | 1869.2 |
| Burglary | 23 | 499.9 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 11 | 239.1 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 35 | 760.7 |
| Aggravated Assault | 30 | 652 |
| Rape | 4 | 86.9 |
| Robbery | 1 | 21.7 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 4,804 | 853.5 | 2060.8 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 4,747 | 105.3 | 1706.3 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 4,631 | 604.6 | 3109.5 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 4,609 | 976.4 | 4968.5 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 4,601 | 760.7 | 2608.1 |
Childersburg Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Childersburg's 155 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 Childersburg in population. Their populations run from 4,388 to 4,885, against 4,601 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Childersburg sits at 760.7/100K violent (grade F); the Alabama cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Childersburg reported 35 violent crimes and 120 property crimes, for a total of 155 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Childersburg's violent crime rate decreased by 22.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 47.5%.
The most common crime type in Childersburg is larceny-theft, accounting for 55.5% of all reported crimes (86 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Childersburg 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.
Small-city rate methodology for how Childersburg's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Childersburg, AL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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