Union Springs, AL has a F safety grade (19/100) with a violent crime rate of 872 per 100,000, 148% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Union Springs is a small municipal reporter (3,097 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with AL and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Union Springs, AL is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 148% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Union Springs, AL shows violent crime at 871.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,291.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 148% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 40.3% of the 67 Part I offenses reported in Union Springs for 2024, against a median of 13.8% across comparable Alabama cities — a gap of 26.5 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 505.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 871.8 in 2024 (+72.6%). The highest observed value was 1514.7 in 2022 and the lowest 505.2 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 871.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Union Springs ranks 20 of 263 — above 243 of the 262 other Alabama cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +308.3% 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.
Small-count caution
Union Springs reported 27 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 3,097. 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 Union Springs's 871.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Summerdale (870.6), Bayou La Batre (887.0), Anniston (845.5), Dothan (912.8). 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 Union Springs'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 27 reported violent incidents in a population of 3,097. 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.
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 6.6 Census sq mi, Union Springs logged 6 property and 4.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Union Springs leans on larceny-theft at 42% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,740.
Violent offenses are 40% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a small city.
Union Springs offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (6.6 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 | 40 | 1291.6 |
| Larceny-Theft | 28 | 904.1 |
| Burglary | 8 | 258.3 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 4 | 129.2 |
| Arson | 1 | 32.3 |
| Violent Crime | 27 | 871.8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 18 | 581.2 |
| Robbery | 5 | 161.4 |
| Murder | 4 | 129.2 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 3,365 | 505.2 | 1485.9 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 3,308 | 1451 | 1511.5 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 3,301 | 1514.7 | 1817.6 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 3,203 | 1155.2 | 1717.1 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 3,097 | 871.8 | 1291.6 |
Union Springs Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Union Springs's 67 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 Union Springs in population. Their populations run from 2,922 to 3,327, against 3,097 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Union Springs sits at 871.8/100K violent (grade F); the Alabama cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Union Springs reported 27 violent crimes and 40 property crimes, for a total of 67 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Union Springs's violent crime rate decreased by 24.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 24.8%.
The most common crime type in Union Springs is larceny-theft, accounting for 41.8% of all reported crimes (28 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Union Springs 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 Union Springs's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Union Springs, AL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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