Midland City, AL has a A safety grade (78/100) with a violent crime rate of 173 per 100,000, 51% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small municipal
Midland City's UCR row covers a small municipal population (2,310). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to AL and U.S. averages.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Midland City, AL is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 51% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Midland City, AL shows violent crime at 173.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 519.5 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 42.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 173.2 in 2024 (+311.6%). The highest observed value was 656.5 in 2022 and the lowest 42.1 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Small-count caution
Midland City reported 4 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 2,310. 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 Midland City's 173.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Henagar (173.4), 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 25.0% of the 16 Part I offenses reported in Midland City 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 173.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Midland City ranks 160 of 263 — above 103 of the 262 other Alabama cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -20.2% 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-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 83.3% of reported property offenses in Midland City, against a cohort median of 74.2%. The remainder is burglary (0) and motor vehicle theft (2). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Midland City'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 2,310. 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.
Across 6.1 Census sq mi, Midland City logged 2 property and 0.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Midland City's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (63% of 16 offenses; mix index 4,375).
Violent offenses are 25% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Midland City offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (6.1 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 | 12 | 519.5 |
| Larceny-Theft | 10 | 432.9 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 2 | 86.6 |
| Burglary | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 4 | 173.2 |
| Rape | 2 | 86.6 |
| Aggravated Assault | 2 | 86.6 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 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 | 2,377 | 42.1 | 631 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 2,396 | 459.1 | 1293.8 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 2,285 | 656.5 | 2932.2 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 2,294 | 305.1 | 2571.9 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 2,310 | 173.2 | 519.5 |
Midland City Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Midland City's 16 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 Midland City in population. Their populations run from 2,262 to 2,357, against 2,310 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
In 2024, Midland City reported 4 violent crimes and 12 property crimes, for a total of 16 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Midland City's violent crime rate decreased by 43.2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 79.8%.
The most common crime type in Midland City is larceny-theft, accounting for 62.5% of all reported crimes (10 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Midland City'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.
Micro-municipal rate methodology for how Midland City's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Midland City, AL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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