Pine Hill, AL is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 103% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Pine Hill, AL shows violent crime at 715.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 4,148.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 103% 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.
F safety grade
715.3/100K violent
4148.8/100K property
+103% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Pine Hill, AL
Small-count caution
The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable
Pine Hill reported 5 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 699. 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.
Position in the state cohort
Pine Hill reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Alabama cities
At 715.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Pine Hill ranks 35 of 263 — above 228 of the 262 other Alabama cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +235.0% 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.
Comparable rate records
Pine Hill's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Alabama cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Pine Hill's 715.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Semmes (720.7), Eufaula (722.8), Ragland (702.6), Mobile (752.0). 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 595.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 715.3 in 2024 (+20.2%). The highest observed value was 1820.7 in 2023 and the lowest 595.2 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Pine Hill'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 5 reported violent incidents in a population of 699. 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.
Pine Hill's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 3.8 Census sq mi, Pine Hill logged 7.6 property and 1.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Pine Hill's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (59% of 34 offenses; mix index 4,066).
Violent offenses are only 15% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (3.8 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
+127.9%
1820.7 → 4148.8/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-60.7%
1820.7 → 715.3/100K
Property offenses lead Pine Hill's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs AL
vs US avg
Property Crime
29
4148.8
1622.1
1711
Larceny-Theft
20
2861.2
-
-
Burglary
6
858.4
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
3
429.2
-
-
Arson
0
0
-
-
Violent Crime
5
715.3
376.1
352
Aggravated Assault
5
715.3
-
-
Murder
0
0
-
-
Rape
0
0
-
-
Robbery
0
0
-
-
Pine Hill Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Pine Hill property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averagesRead the chart as a list
Pine Hill: 715 violent, 4149 property per 100,000 (grade F)
Columbia: 0 violent, 711 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Pisgah: 0 violent, 723 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Gilbertown: 283 violent, 849 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Addison: 448 violent, 1943 property per 100,000 (grade D)
St. Florian: 0 violent, 2592 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Ider: 271 violent, 271 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Lexington: 0 violent, 678 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Leighton: 1070 violent, 1223 property per 100,000 (grade F)
Pine Hill Police Department
Reporting agency for Pine Hill NIBRS-participating
Pine Hill Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Pine Hill's 34 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.
Similar-Size Cities in Alabama
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Alabama cities closest to Pine Hill in population. Their populations run from 654 to 738, against 699 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Pine Hill reported 5 violent crimes and 29 property crimes, for a total of 34 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Pine Hill?
From 2023 to 2024, Pine Hill's violent crime rate decreased by 60.7%, and the property crime rate increased by 127.9%.
What is the most common crime in Pine Hill?
The most common crime type in Pine Hill is larceny-theft, accounting for 58.8% of all reported crimes (20 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Pine Hill'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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Pine Hill, AL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.