Piedmont, AL has a F safety grade (11/100) with a violent crime rate of 1068 per 100,000, 203% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Piedmont is a small municipal reporter (4,681 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with AL and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Piedmont, AL is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 203% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Piedmont, AL shows violent crime at 1,068.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,157.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 203% 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 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 511.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 1068.1 in 2024 (+109.0%). The highest observed value was 1068.1 in 2024 and the lowest 104.6 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 1068.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Piedmont ranks 11 of 263 — above 252 of the 262 other Alabama cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +400.2% 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 33.1% of the 151 Part I offenses reported in Piedmont for 2024, against a median of 13.8% across comparable Alabama cities — a gap of 19.3 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Piedmont's 1068.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Leighton (1070.3), Gurley (1055.1), Tallassee (1054.4), Bear Creek (1035.8). 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.
Property counts dominate Piedmont'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 9.8 Census sq mi, Piedmont logged 10.3 property and 5.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Piedmont leans on larceny-theft at 54% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,933.
Violent offenses are 33% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Piedmont offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (9.8 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 | 101 | 2157.7 |
| Larceny-Theft | 82 | 1751.8 |
| Burglary | 13 | 277.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 6 | 128.2 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 50 | 1068.1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 45 | 961.3 |
| Rape | 3 | 64.1 |
| Robbery | 2 | 42.7 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
The chart omits 2022 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 | 4,501 | 511 | 2044 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 4,436 | 225.4 | 879.2 |
| 2022 | Insufficient reporting | 4,779 | - | - |
| 2023 | Comparable | 4,672 | 1006 | 1155.8 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 4,681 | 1068.1 | 2157.7 |
Piedmont Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Piedmont's 151 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 Piedmont in population. Their populations run from 4,461 to 4,913, against 4,681 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Piedmont sits at 1,068.1/100K violent (grade F); the Alabama cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Piedmont reported 50 violent crimes and 101 property crimes, for a total of 151 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Piedmont's violent crime rate increased by 6.2%, and the property crime rate increased by 86.7%.
The most common crime type in Piedmont is larceny-theft, accounting for 54.3% of all reported crimes (82 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Piedmont 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 Piedmont's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Piedmont, AL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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