Lincoln, AL has a C safety grade (41/100) with a violent crime rate of 388 per 100,000, 10% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Lincoln is a small municipal reporter (7,725 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with AL and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Lincoln, AL carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 10% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Lincoln, AL shows violent crime at 388.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,278.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 10% above 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Lincoln's 388.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Vance (389.6), Centre (390.1), Jasper (395.3), Valley (380.8). 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 263.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 388.3 in 2024 (+47.6%). The highest observed value was 468.6 in 2022 and the lowest 263.0 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 388.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Lincoln ranks 88 of 263 — above 175 of the 262 other Alabama cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +81.9% 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 Lincoln'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.
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 25.7 Census sq mi, Lincoln logged 6.9 property and 1.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Lincoln leans on larceny-theft at 58% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,917.
Violent offenses are only 15% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Lincoln offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (25.7 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 | 176 | 2278.3 |
| Larceny-Theft | 120 | 1553.4 |
| Burglary | 31 | 401.3 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 25 | 323.6 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 30 | 388.3 |
| Aggravated Assault | 25 | 323.6 |
| Robbery | 3 | 38.8 |
| Rape | 2 | 25.9 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 6,843 | 263 | 2411.2 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 7,058 | 439.2 | 3003.7 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 7,256 | 468.6 | 2356.7 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 7,459 | 402.2 | 2560.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 7,725 | 388.3 | 2278.3 |
Lincoln Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Lincoln's 206 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 Lincoln in population. Their populations run from 6,923 to 8,456, against 7,725 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Lincoln sits at 388.3/100K violent (grade C); the Alabama cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Lincoln reported 30 violent crimes and 176 property crimes, for a total of 206 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Lincoln's violent crime rate decreased by 3.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 11%.
The most common crime type in Lincoln is larceny-theft, accounting for 58.3% of all reported crimes (120 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Lincoln 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 Lincoln's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Lincoln, AL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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