Gantt, AL carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 179% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Gantt, AL shows violent crime at 980.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,941.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 179% 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
980.4/100K violent
2941.2/100K property
+179% vs U.S.
The verdict
Gantt earns an F safety grade: violent crime runs 179% above the U.S. average, placing it among the highest-crime cities in the country.
F
PlainCrime safety grade
+179%
violent crime vs. U.S. average
3rd
percentile of 7,769 U.S. cities
2,941.2
property crimes per 100K
Based on 2 reported violent incidents in a population of 204. 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 Gantt, AL
Small-count caution
The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable
Gantt reported 2 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 204. 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.
Position in the state cohort
Gantt reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Alabama cities
At 980.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Gantt ranks 16 of 263 — above 247 of the 262 other Alabama cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +359.1% 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
Gantt's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Alabama cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Gantt's 980.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Demopolis (965.4), Alexander City (1024.2), Bear Creek (1035.8), Dothan (912.8). 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 make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 25.0% of the 8 Part I offenses reported in Gantt for 2024, against a median of 13.8% across comparable Alabama cities — a gap of 11.2 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-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 Gantt, against a cohort median of 74.2%. The remainder is burglary (1) and motor vehicle theft (0). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Gantt'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 2 reported violent incidents in a population of 204. 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.
On a small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
Both rates shifted (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
+94.1%
505.1 → 980.4/100K
Property Crime Rate
+94.1%
1515.2 → 2941.2/100K
Property offenses lead Gantt's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs AL
vs US avg
Property Crime
6
2941.2
1622.1
1711
Larceny-Theft
5
2451
-
-
Burglary
1
490.2
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
0
0
-
-
Arson
0
0
-
-
Violent Crime
2
980.4
376.1
352
Murder
1
490.2
-
-
Aggravated Assault
1
490.2
-
-
Rape
0
0
-
-
Robbery
0
0
-
-
Gantt Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Gantt property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Property crime rate (2024)
2,941.2/100K↑94.1%vs 2023
Gantt violent crime rate trend
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
Violent crime rate (2024)
980.4/100K↑94.1%vs 2023
Year
Coverage
Population
Violent Rate
Property Rate
Total Crimes
2020
Comparable
215
0
1860.5
4
2021
Comparable
214
0
1869.2
4
2022
Comparable
199
0
502.5
1
2023
Comparable
198
505.1
1515.2
4
2024
Comparable
204
980.4
2941.2
8
How Gantt sits among AL peers
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Reporting Agency
Gantt Police Department NIBRS-participating
Gantt's crime figures on this page originate from Gantt 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 Gantt in population. Their populations run from 195 to 388, against 204 here. Or use our
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These Alabama cities report the closest violent-crime rates to Gantt's 980.4/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).
Gantt has a violent crime rate of 980.4 per 100,000 residents and a property crime rate of 2941.2 per 100,000, based on 2024 FBI UCR data.
Is Gantt, AL safe? ▼
Gantt receives a safety grade of F (High Risk), with a safety score of 4/100. The violent crime rate is 179% above the national average and 161% above the Alabama average.
What is the population of Gantt, AL? ▼
The reporting population for Gantt is 204 as of 2024.
How many crimes were reported in Gantt? ▼
In 2024, Gantt reported 2 violent crimes and 6 property crimes, for a total of 8 reported offenses.
How do Gantt's reported offenses compare with its population? ▼
In 2024, Gantt recorded about one reported offense per 26 residents and one reported violent offense per 102 residents. These ratios count reported offenses, not distinct victims, and are not a person's probability of victimization.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Gantt? ▼
From 2023 to 2024, Gantt's violent crime rate increased by 94.1%, and the property crime rate increased by 94.1%.
What is the most common crime in Gantt? ▼
The most common crime type in Gantt is larceny-theft, accounting for 62.5% of all reported crimes (5 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Gantt'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.