Montgomery, AL has a F safety grade (21/100) with a violent crime rate of 595 per 100,000, 69% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
At 193,728 residents, Montgomery is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against AL and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Montgomery, AL carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 69% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Montgomery, AL shows violent crime at 594.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,235.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 69% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 264.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 594.6 in 2024 (+125.3%). The highest observed value was 594.6 in 2024 and the lowest 11.1 in 2022. 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 Montgomery's 594.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Eutaw (590.4), Decatur (606.7), Dadeville (581.8), Jacksonville (607.6). 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 594.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Montgomery ranks 47 of 263 — above 216 of the 262 other Alabama cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +178.5% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 21.0% of the 5,482 Part I offenses reported in Montgomery for 2024, against a median of 13.8% across comparable Alabama cities — a gap of 7.2 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 60.0% of reported property offenses in Montgomery, against a cohort median of 74.5%. The remainder is burglary (1,021) and motor vehicle theft (711). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Montgomery'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.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Across 159.9 Census sq mi, Montgomery logged 27.1 property and 7.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Montgomery leans on larceny-theft at 47% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,987.
Violent offenses are 21% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Montgomery offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (159.9 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 | 4,330 | 2235.1 |
| Larceny-Theft | 2,598 | 1341.1 |
| Burglary | 1,021 | 527 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 711 | 367 |
| Arson | 1 | 0.5 |
| Violent Crime | 1,152 | 594.6 |
| Aggravated Assault | 734 | 378.9 |
| Robbery | 371 | 191.5 |
| Murder | 35 | 18.1 |
| Rape | 12 | 6.2 |
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 | 197,755 | 264 | 1334.5 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 195,361 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 197,333 | 11.1 | 26.4 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 195,484 | 133.5 | 545.8 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 193,728 | 594.6 | 2235.1 |
Montgomery Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Montgomery's 5,482 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 Montgomery in population. Their populations run from 62,087 to 237,092, against 193,728 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Montgomery sits at 594.6/100K violent (grade F); the Alabama cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Montgomery at 594.6/100K violent and 2,235.1/100K property - matched below outside Alabama (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
594.6/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
2,235.1/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (+345.4% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Montgomery reported 1,152 violent crimes and 4,330 property crimes, for a total of 5,482 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Montgomery's violent crime rate increased by 345.4%, and the property crime rate increased by 309.5%.
The most common crime type in Montgomery is larceny-theft, accounting for 47.4% of all reported crimes (2,598 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Montgomery's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Large-city rate methodology for how Montgomery's large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Montgomery, AL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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