Rainbow City, AL has a A safety grade (83/100) with a violent crime rate of 87 per 100,000, 75% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Rainbow City (10,362 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
Rainbow City, AL carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 75% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Rainbow City, AL shows violent crime at 86.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 926.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 75% 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
Rainbow City reported 9 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 10,362. 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 Rainbow City's 86.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Ashford (84.9), Saraland (84.8), Hokes Bluff (84.7), Morris (89.2). 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 86.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Rainbow City ranks 209 of 263 — above 54 of the 262 other Alabama cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -60.0% 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 62.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 86.9 in 2024 (+39.1%). The highest observed value was 126.1 in 2023 and the lowest 62.4 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 8.6% of the 105 Part I offenses reported in Rainbow City for 2024, against a median of 13.9% across comparable Alabama cities — a gap of 5.3 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 82.3% of reported property offenses in Rainbow City, against a cohort median of 74.2%. The remainder is burglary (10) and motor vehicle theft (7). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Rainbow 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.
Based on 9 reported violent incidents in a population of 10,362. 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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 25.6 Census sq mi, Rainbow City logged 3.7 property and 0.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Rainbow City's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (75% of 105 offenses; mix index 5,844).
Violent offenses are only 9% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Rainbow City offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (25.6 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 | 96 | 926.5 |
| Larceny-Theft | 79 | 762.4 |
| Burglary | 10 | 96.5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 7 | 67.6 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 9 | 86.9 |
| Aggravated Assault | 7 | 67.6 |
| Rape | 2 | 19.3 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 9,610 | 62.4 | 894.9 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 9,602 | 114.6 | 1239.3 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 10,150 | 108.4 | 1182.3 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 10,309 | 126.1 | 1387.1 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 10,362 | 86.9 | 926.5 |
Rainbow City Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Rainbow City's 105 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 Rainbow City in population. Their populations run from 9,250 to 11,199, against 10,362 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Rainbow City sits at 86.9/100K violent (grade A); the Alabama cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Rainbow City at 86.9/100K violent and 926.5/100K property - matched below outside Alabama (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
86.9/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
926.5/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Rainbow City reported 9 violent crimes and 96 property crimes, for a total of 105 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Rainbow City's violent crime rate decreased by 31.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 33.2%.
The most common crime type in Rainbow City is larceny-theft, accounting for 75.2% of all reported crimes (79 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Rainbow 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 Rainbow City's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Rainbow 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. Rainbow City is scored in the mid-size municipal band (10,362 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.