Vestavia Hills, AL carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 77% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Vestavia Hills, AL shows violent crime at 82.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 645.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 77% 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.
A safety grade
82.3/100K violent
645.3/100K property
-77% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Vestavia Hills, AL
Comparable rate records
Vestavia Hills's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Alabama cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Vestavia Hills's 82.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Hokes Bluff (84.7), Saraland (84.8), Ashford (84.9), Hoover (78.0). 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.
Position in the state cohort
Vestavia Hills reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable Alabama cities
At 82.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Vestavia Hills ranks 213 of 263 — above 50 of the 262 other Alabama cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -62.1% 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 82.7% of reported property offenses in Vestavia Hills, against a cohort median of 74.2%. The remainder is burglary (24) and motor vehicle theft (18). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 89.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 82.3 in 2024 (-8.4%). The highest observed value was 89.9 in 2020 and the lowest 76.5 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Vestavia Hills'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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Vestavia Hills's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 20 Census sq mi, Vestavia Hills logged 12.1 property and 1.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Vestavia Hills's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (73% of 274 offenses; mix index 5,589).
Violent offenses are only 11% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (20 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
-26.1%
873.6 → 645.3/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+7.6%
76.5 → 82.3/100K
Property offenses lead Vestavia Hills's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs AL
Property Crime
243
645.3
1711
1622.1
Larceny-Theft
201
533.8
-
-
Burglary
24
63.7
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
18
47.8
-
-
Arson
1
2.7
-
-
Violent Crime
31
82.3
352
376.1
Aggravated Assault
25
66.4
-
-
Rape
6
15.9
-
-
Murder
0
0
-
-
Robbery
0
0
-
-
Vestavia Hills Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Vestavia Hills 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 averages
Vestavia Hills Police Department
Reporting agency for Vestavia Hills NIBRS-participating
Vestavia Hills Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Vestavia Hills's 274 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
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In 2024, Vestavia Hills reported 31 violent crimes and 243 property crimes, for a total of 274 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Vestavia Hills?
From 2023 to 2024, Vestavia Hills's violent crime rate increased by 7.6%, and the property crime rate decreased by 26.1%.
What is the most common crime in Vestavia Hills?
The most common crime type in Vestavia Hills is larceny-theft, accounting for 73.4% of all reported crimes (201 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Vestavia Hills 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Vestavia Hills, AL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.