Pell City, AL has a C safety grade (51/100) with a violent crime rate of 295 per 100,000, 16% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Pell City (14,250 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
Pell City, AL carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 16% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Pell City, AL shows violent crime at 294.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,203.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 16% below 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 Pell City's 294.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Fultondale (293.7), Leeds (297.3), Butler (287.9), Gulf Shores (287.1). 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 294.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Pell City ranks 109 of 263 — above 154 of the 262 other Alabama cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +38.0% 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 Pell 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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 25 Census sq mi, Pell City logged 12.6 property and 1.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Pell City's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (72% of 356 offenses; mix index 5,490).
Violent offenses are only 12% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Pell City offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (25 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 | 314 | 2203.5 |
| Larceny-Theft | 258 | 1810.5 |
| Burglary | 38 | 266.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 18 | 126.3 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 42 | 294.7 |
| Aggravated Assault | 35 | 245.6 |
| Rape | 4 | 28.1 |
| Robbery | 3 | 21.1 |
| 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 | 14,195 | 0 | 7 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 14,461 | 6.9 | 41.5 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 13,607 | 301.3 | 2373.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 13,973 | 357.8 | 2046.8 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 14,250 | 294.7 | 2203.5 |
Pell City Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Pell City's 356 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 Pell City in population. Their populations run from 13,538 to 14,984, against 14,250 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Pell City sits at 294.7/100K violent (grade C); the Alabama cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Pell City at 294.7/100K violent and 2,203.5/100K property - matched below outside Alabama (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
294.7/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
2,203.5/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Pell City reported 42 violent crimes and 314 property crimes, for a total of 356 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Pell City's violent crime rate decreased by 17.6%, and the property crime rate increased by 7.7%.
The most common crime type in Pell City is larceny-theft, accounting for 72.5% of all reported crimes (258 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Pell City 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 Pell City's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Pell City, AL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Pell City is scored in the mid-size municipal band (14,250 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.