Irondale, AL has a B safety grade (70/100) with a violent crime rate of 177 per 100,000, 50% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Irondale (13,538 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then AL and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Irondale, AL carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 50% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Irondale, AL shows violent crime at 177.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,403.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 50% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Small-count caution
Irondale reported 24 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 13,538. 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 409.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 177.3 in 2024 (-56.7%). The highest observed value was 409.3 in 2020 and the lowest 150.5 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Irondale's 177.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Newville (177.9), East Brewton (178.7), York (175.7), Moody (174.9). 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 63.7% of reported property offenses in Irondale, against a cohort median of 74.5%. The remainder is burglary (29) and motor vehicle theft (40). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
At 177.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Irondale ranks 155 of 263 — above 108 of the 262 other Alabama cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -18.3% 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.
Property counts dominate Irondale'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 24 reported violent incidents in a population of 13,538. 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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 17.3 Census sq mi, Irondale logged 11 property and 1.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Irondale leans on larceny-theft at 57% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,799.
Violent offenses are only 11% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Irondale offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (17.3 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 | 190 | 1403.5 |
| Larceny-Theft | 121 | 893.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 40 | 295.5 |
| Burglary | 29 | 214.2 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 24 | 177.3 |
| Aggravated Assault | 17 | 125.6 |
| Robbery | 4 | 29.5 |
| Rape | 3 | 22.2 |
| 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 | 12,949 | 409.3 | 1397.8 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 13,285 | 150.5 | 956 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 13,528 | 332.6 | 1892.4 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 13,303 | 270.6 | 2022.1 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 13,538 | 177.3 | 1403.5 |
Irondale Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Irondale's 214 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 Irondale in population. Their populations run from 12,314 to 14,590, against 13,538 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Irondale sits at 177.3/100K violent (grade B); the Alabama cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Irondale at 177.3/100K violent and 1,403.5/100K property - matched below outside Alabama (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
177.3/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,403.5/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Irondale reported 24 violent crimes and 190 property crimes, for a total of 214 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Irondale's violent crime rate decreased by 34.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 30.6%.
The most common crime type in Irondale is larceny-theft, accounting for 56.5% of all reported crimes (121 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Irondale figures are FBI UCR CIUS Table 8 (vintage 2024), population-adjusted per 100,000.
Denominators are the reporting-year population on the municipal row. Incomplete years are dropped from rankings. Confirm at FBI Crime Data Explorer and Census.gov QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (mid-size municipal): figures are informational, not advice. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is the source. Consult a professional before decisions.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Irondale's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Irondale, AL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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