Spanish Fort, AL has a A safety grade (79/100) with a violent crime rate of 89 per 100,000, 75% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Spanish Fort (11,199 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
Spanish Fort, 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, Spanish Fort, AL shows violent crime at 89.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,366.2 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
Spanish Fort reported 10 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 11,199. 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 Spanish Fort's 89.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Morris (89.2), Double Springs (89.7), Rainbow City (86.9), Ashford (84.9). 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 89.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Spanish Fort ranks 207 of 263 — above 56 of the 262 other Alabama cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -58.9% 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 126.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 89.3 in 2024 (-29.2%). The highest observed value was 126.2 in 2020 and the lowest 65.5 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 92.2% of reported property offenses in Spanish Fort, against a cohort median of 74.2%. The remainder is burglary (8) and motor vehicle theft (4). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 6.1% of the 163 Part I offenses reported in Spanish Fort for 2024, against a median of 13.9% across comparable Alabama cities — a gap of 7.7 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 counts dominate Spanish Fort'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 10 reported violent incidents in a population of 11,199. 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 31.6 Census sq mi, Spanish Fort logged 4.8 property and 0.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Spanish Fort's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (87% of 163 offenses; mix index 7,529).
Violent offenses are only 6% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Spanish Fort offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (31.6 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 | 153 | 1366.2 |
| Larceny-Theft | 141 | 1259 |
| Burglary | 8 | 71.4 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 4 | 35.7 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 10 | 89.3 |
| Rape | 5 | 44.6 |
| Aggravated Assault | 4 | 35.7 |
| Murder | 1 | 8.9 |
| 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 | 9,511 | 126.2 | 1030.4 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 9,765 | 81.9 | 870.5 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 10,689 | 65.5 | 1571.7 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 10,925 | 100.7 | 1684.2 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 11,199 | 89.3 | 1366.2 |
Spanish Fort Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Spanish Fort's 163 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 Spanish Fort in population. Their populations run from 9,533 to 12,445, against 11,199 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Spanish Fort sits at 89.3/100K violent (grade A); the Alabama cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Spanish Fort at 89.3/100K violent and 1,366.2/100K property - matched below outside Alabama (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
89.3/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,366.2/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Spanish Fort reported 10 violent crimes and 153 property crimes, for a total of 163 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Spanish Fort's violent crime rate decreased by 11.3%, and the property crime rate decreased by 18.9%.
The most common crime type in Spanish Fort is larceny-theft, accounting for 86.5% of all reported crimes (141 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Spanish Fort 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 Spanish Fort's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Spanish Fort, AL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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