Eutaw, AL carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 68% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Eutaw, AL shows violent crime at 590.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,767.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 68% 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.
F safety grade
590.4/100K violent
2767.5/100K property
+68% vs U.S.
The verdict
Eutaw earns an F safety grade: violent crime runs 68% above the U.S. average, placing it among the highest-crime cities in the country.
F
PlainCrime safety grade
+68%
violent crime vs. U.S. average
10th
percentile of 7,769 U.S. cities
2,767.5
property crimes per 100K
Based on 16 reported violent incidents in a population of 2,710. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Eutaw, AL
Small-count caution
The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable
Eutaw reported 16 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 2,710. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Comparable rate records
Eutaw's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Alabama cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Eutaw's 590.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Montgomery (594.6), Dadeville (581.8), Gadsden (581.6), Livingston (581.4). 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.
Position in the state cohort
Eutaw reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Alabama cities
At 590.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Eutaw ranks 48 of 263 — above 215 of the 262 other Alabama cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +176.5% 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.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 62.7% of reported property offenses in Eutaw, against a cohort median of 74.5%. The remainder is burglary (20) and motor vehicle theft (8). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 17.6% of the 91 Part I offenses reported in Eutaw for 2024, against a median of 13.8% across comparable Alabama cities — a gap of 3.7 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
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 544.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 590.4 in 2024 (+8.4%). The highest observed value was 637.6 in 2022 and the lowest 356.4 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Eutaw'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.
Based on 16 reported violent incidents in a population of 2,710. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
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.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
+33.3%
2075.7 → 2767.5/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+24.7%
473.4 → 590.4/100K
Property offenses lead Eutaw's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs AL
vs US avg
Property Crime
75
2767.5
1622.1
1711
Larceny-Theft
47
1734.3
-
-
Burglary
20
738
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
8
295.2
-
-
Arson
0
0
-
-
Violent Crime
16
590.4
376.1
352
Aggravated Assault
14
516.6
-
-
Robbery
2
73.8
-
-
Murder
0
0
-
-
Rape
0
0
-
-
Eutaw Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Eutaw property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Property crime rate (2024)
2,767.5/100K↑33.3%vs 2023
Eutaw violent crime rate trend
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
Violent crime rate (2024)
590.4/100K↑24.7%vs 2023
Year
Coverage
Population
Violent Rate
Property Rate
Total Crimes
2020
Comparable
2,570
544.7
1556.4
54
2021
Comparable
2,525
356.4
633.7
25
2022
Comparable
2,823
637.6
1594
63
2023
Comparable
2,746
473.4
2075.7
70
2024
Comparable
2,710
590.4
2767.5
91
How Eutaw sits among AL peers
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Reporting Agency
Eutaw Police Department NIBRS-participating
Eutaw's crime figures on this page originate from Eutaw Police Department's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
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
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Alabama cities closest to Eutaw in population. Their populations run from 2,513 to 2,922, against 2,710 here. Or use our
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These Alabama cities report the closest violent-crime rates to Eutaw's 590.4/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).
Eutaw has a violent crime rate of 590.4 per 100,000 residents and a property crime rate of 2767.5 per 100,000, based on 2024 FBI UCR data.
Is Eutaw, AL safe? ▼
Eutaw receives a safety grade of F (High Risk), with a safety score of 17/100. The violent crime rate is 68% above the national average and 57% above the Alabama average.
What is the population of Eutaw, AL? ▼
The reporting population for Eutaw is 2,710 as of 2024.
How many crimes were reported in Eutaw? ▼
In 2024, Eutaw reported 16 violent crimes and 75 property crimes, for a total of 91 reported offenses.
How do Eutaw's reported offenses compare with its population? ▼
In 2024, Eutaw recorded about one reported offense per 30 residents and one reported violent offense per 169 residents. These ratios count reported offenses, not distinct victims, and are not a person's probability of victimization.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Eutaw? ▼
From 2023 to 2024, Eutaw's violent crime rate increased by 24.7%, and the property crime rate increased by 33.3%.
What is the most common crime in Eutaw? ▼
The most common crime type in Eutaw is larceny-theft, accounting for 51.6% of all reported crimes (47 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Eutaw 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.