Guntersville, AL has a C safety grade (48/100) with a violent crime rate of 305 per 100,000, 13% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Guntersville is a small municipal reporter (9,184 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with AL and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Guntersville, AL carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 13% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Guntersville, AL shows violent crime at 304.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,471.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 13% below 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 116.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 304.9 in 2024 (+162.4%). The highest observed value was 454.2 in 2023 and the lowest 57.3 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Small-count caution
Guntersville reported 28 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 9,184. 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
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Guntersville's 304.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Bridgeport (309.5), Thomasville (310.5), Coosada (312.0), Leeds (297.3). 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
At 304.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Guntersville ranks 107 of 263 — above 156 of the 262 other Alabama cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +42.8% 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.
Property counts dominate Guntersville'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 28 reported violent incidents in a population of 9,184. 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.
Across 25.6 Census sq mi, Guntersville logged 8.9 property and 1.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Guntersville's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (65% of 255 offenses; mix index 4,599).
Violent offenses are only 11% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Guntersville offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (25.6 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 | 227 | 2471.7 |
| Larceny-Theft | 165 | 1796.6 |
| Burglary | 39 | 424.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 23 | 250.4 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 28 | 304.9 |
| Aggravated Assault | 25 | 272.2 |
| Rape | 2 | 21.8 |
| Robbery | 1 | 10.9 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 8,606 | 116.2 | 1196.8 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 8,720 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 8,858 | 338.7 | 3206.1 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 9,026 | 454.2 | 3833.4 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 9,184 | 304.9 | 2471.7 |
Guntersville Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Guntersville's 255 reported offenses (4-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
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 Guntersville in population. Their populations run from 8,838 to 9,638, against 9,184 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Guntersville sits at 304.9/100K violent (grade C); the Alabama cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Guntersville reported 28 violent crimes and 227 property crimes, for a total of 255 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Guntersville's violent crime rate decreased by 32.9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 35.5%.
The most common crime type in Guntersville is larceny-theft, accounting for 64.7% of all reported crimes (165 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Guntersville 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 Guntersville's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Guntersville, AL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Guntersville is scored as a small-city UCR reporter (9,184 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.