Owens Cross Roads, AL has a A safety grade (83/100) with a violent crime rate of 99 per 100,000, 72% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Owens Cross Roads is a small municipal reporter (3,022 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with AL and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Owens Cross Roads, AL is safer than most U.S. cities, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 72% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Owens Cross Roads, AL shows violent crime at 99.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 794.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 72% 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.
Small-count caution
Owens Cross Roads reported 3 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 3,022. 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 Owens Cross Roads's 99.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Alabaster (99.0), Lipscomb (100.9), Killen (96.4), Snead (95.8). 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 99.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Owens Cross Roads ranks 202 of 263 — above 61 of the 262 other Alabama cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -54.3% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 136.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 99.3 in 2024 (-27.0%). The highest observed value was 259.1 in 2021 and the lowest 99.3 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Owens Cross Roads'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 3 reported violent incidents in a population of 3,022. 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.
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 7.9 Census sq mi, Owens Cross Roads logged 3 property and 0.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Owens Cross Roads's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (63% of 27 offenses; mix index 4,431).
Violent offenses are only 11% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Owens Cross Roads offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (7.9 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 | 24 | 794.2 |
| Larceny-Theft | 17 | 562.5 |
| Burglary | 4 | 132.4 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 3 | 99.3 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 3 | 99.3 |
| Aggravated Assault | 3 | 99.3 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 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 | 2,206 | 136 | 453.3 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 2,316 | 259.1 | 1122.6 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 2,648 | 151.1 | 1208.5 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 2,662 | 150.3 | 864 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 3,022 | 99.3 | 794.2 |
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Alabama cities closest to Owens Cross Roads in population. Their populations run from 2,922 to 3,327, against 3,022 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Owens Cross Roads sits at 99.3/100K violent (grade A); the Alabama cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Owens Cross Roads reported 3 violent crimes and 24 property crimes, for a total of 27 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Owens Cross Roads's violent crime rate decreased by 33.9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 8.1%.
The most common crime type in Owens Cross Roads is larceny-theft, accounting for 63.0% of all reported crimes (17 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Owens Cross Roads 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 Owens Cross Roads's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Owens Cross Roads, AL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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