Henagar, AL has a A safety grade (76/100) with a violent crime rate of 173 per 100,000, 51% below the national average.

FBI UCR 2024 Per-capita rates FBI UCR + NIBRS

Henagar, AL Crime Rate & Safety

Henagar's UCR row covers a small municipal population (2,307). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to AL and U.S. averages.

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Safety grade
Safe
823.6
Property / 100K
173.4
Violent / 100K
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Population
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property vs U.S.

Henagar, AL carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 51% below the U.S. average

According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Henagar, AL shows violent crime at 173.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 823.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 51% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade A from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.

  • A safety grade
  • 173.4/100K violent
  • 823.6/100K property
  • -51% vs U.S.

The verdict

Henagar earns an A safety grade: violent crime runs 51% below the U.S. average, placing it close to the national middle for violent crime.

A
PlainCrime safety grade
-51%
violent crime vs. U.S. average
51st
percentile of 7,769 U.S. cities
823.6
property crimes per 100K

Based on 4 reported violent incidents in a population of 2,307. 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 Henagar, AL

Small-count caution

The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable

Henagar reported 4 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 2,307. 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

Henagar's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Alabama cohort

The nearest comparable 2024 records to Henagar's 173.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Midland City (173.2), Grove Hill (174.5), Moody (174.9), York (175.7). 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

Henagar sits mid-pack among comparable Alabama cities

At 173.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Henagar ranks 159 of 263 — above 104 of the 262 other Alabama cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -20.1% against the cohort median of 217.1. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.

Offense mix

Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix

Violent offenses are 17.4% of the 23 Part I offenses reported in Henagar for 2024, against a median of 13.8% across comparable Alabama cities — a gap of 3.6 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.

Property counts dominate Henagar'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 4 reported violent incidents in a population of 2,307. 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.

Property rate moved most (2023→2024)

Property Crime Rate
-47.5%
1570 → 823.6/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-33.7%
261.7 → 173.4/100K

Property offenses lead Henagar's 2024 record

Offense Count Rate /100K
Property Crime 19 823.6
Larceny-Theft 14 606.8
Motor Vehicle Theft 3 130
Burglary 2 86.7
Arson 1 43.3
Violent Crime 4 173.4
Aggravated Assault 4 173.4
Murder 0 0
Rape 0 0
Robbery 0 0

Henagar Crime Trend (2020-2024)

Henagar property crime rate trend

Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR

Property crime rate (2024)
823.6/100K 47.5% vs 2023
05001,0001,5002,000 20202021202220232024 824

Henagar violent crime rate trend

Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR

Violent crime rate (2024)
173.4/100K 33.7% vs 2023
-1000100200300 20202021202220232024 173
Year Coverage Population Violent Rate Property Rate
2020 Comparable 2,364 0 380.7
2021 Comparable 2,367 126.7 1901.1
2022 Comparable 2,293 130.8 915.8
2023 Comparable 2,293 261.7 1570
2024 Comparable 2,307 173.4 823.6

How Henagar sits among AL peers

Henagar vs. similar-size AL cities, violent vs. property crime. X axis violent crime per 100K, Y axis property crime per 100K, split by the national averages. 9 cities; the anchor is ringed. Henagar vs. similar-size AL cities, violent vs. property crime 0 421 Violent crime per 100K → 0 1,848 Property crime per 100K → Henagar SAFEST HIGHEST CRIME Safety grade A / B C D / F
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages

Reporting Agency

Henagar Police Department NIBRS-participating

Henagar's crime figures on this page originate from Henagar 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 Henagar in population. Their populations run from 2,262 to 2,357, against 2,307 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.

Similar violent-crime rates in Alabama

These Alabama cities report the closest violent-crime rates to Henagar's 173.4/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the crime rate in Henagar, AL?
Henagar has a violent crime rate of 173.4 per 100,000 residents and a property crime rate of 823.6 per 100,000, based on 2024 FBI UCR data.
Is Henagar, AL safe?
Henagar receives a safety grade of A (Safe), with a safety score of 76/100. The violent crime rate is 51% below the national average and 54% below the Alabama average.
What is the population of Henagar, AL?
The reporting population for Henagar is 2,307 as of 2024.
How many crimes were reported in Henagar?
In 2024, Henagar reported 4 violent crimes and 19 property crimes, for a total of 23 reported offenses.
How do Henagar's reported offenses compare with its population?
In 2024, Henagar recorded about one reported offense per 100 residents and one reported violent offense per 577 residents. These ratios count reported offenses, not distinct victims, and are not a person's probability of victimization.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Henagar?
From 2023 to 2024, Henagar's violent crime rate decreased by 33.7%, and the property crime rate decreased by 47.5%.
What is the most common crime in Henagar?
The most common crime type in Henagar is larceny-theft, accounting for 60.9% of all reported crimes (14 incidents in 2024).

Micro-municipal read: Henagar'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.

Federal sources for this micro-municipal row

Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Henagar, 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. Henagar is scored as a small municipal UCR reporter (2,307 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.