County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
Blount County, AL
At 59,134 residents, Blount County is a large county in Alabama. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Blount County, AL reported 139 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Blount County, AL agencies reported 82 violent and 298 property offenses. That equals about 139 violent and 504 property crimes per 100,000 using a verified Census population join. Table 10 coverage is a voluntary subset of U.S. counties.
2024 UCR year
82 violent offenses
139/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Blount County, AL
Position in the state cohort
Blount County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Alabama counties
At 138.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Blount County ranks 11 of 56 — above 45 of the 55 other Alabama counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +84.9% against the cohort median of 75.0. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
2021–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 111.6 per 100,000 in 2021 to 138.7 in 2024 (+24.2%). The highest observed value was 187.7 in 2023 and the lowest 111.6 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
On a large county row, county figures aggregate every participating agency inside the county. Participation is voluntary. Per-100,000 rates use a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census county population, never a Table 10 field; unmatched counties stay count-only. A large county line encloses very different communities.
Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · large county
Category
Count
Property Crime
298
Burglary
66
Larceny-Theft
180
Motor Vehicle Theft
52
Arson
2
Violent Crime
82
Murder
1
Rape
18
Robbery
2
Aggravated Assault
61
Reporting Agency
Blount County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Blount County's crime figures on this page originate from Blount County Sheriff's Office's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
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 Counties in Alabama
A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the Alabama counties closest to Blount County in population. Their populations run from 53,465 to 65,342, against 59,134 here. Or launch the
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Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Crime in the United States (CIUS) Table 10.
FBI Table 10 supplies county offense counts but no resident population. Where this page shows a per-100,000 rate, the denominator is a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census Bureau county population; unmatched county rows remain count-only. Statewide comparisons draw on the state UCR program. Verify with FBI.gov UCR and Census.gov QuickFacts.