County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
Chilton County, AL
Chilton County (45,014 people) sits in the mid-size county band in Alabama. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.
Chilton County, AL reported 142 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Chilton County, AL agencies reported 64 violent and 419 property offenses. That equals about 142 violent and 931 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
64 violent offenses
142/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Chilton County, AL
Position in the state cohort
Chilton County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Alabama counties
At 142.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Chilton County ranks 10 of 56 — above 46 of the 55 other Alabama counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +89.5% 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.
2022–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 3 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 239.9 per 100,000 in 2022 to 142.2 in 2024 (-40.7%). The highest observed value was 239.9 in 2022 and the lowest 142.2 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 13.3% of the 483 Part I offenses reported in Chilton County for 2024, against a median of 21.6% across comparable Alabama counties — a gap of 8.3 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
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 45.1% of reported property offenses in Chilton County, against a cohort median of 62.3%. The remainder is burglary (181) and motor vehicle theft (49). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Mid-size county rows still aggregate voluntary UCR submissions. Per-100,000 rates need a matched 2020 Census population; unmatched stay count-only. County-wide totals rarely describe any single town inside the line.
Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · mid-size county
Category
Count
Property Crime
419
Burglary
181
Larceny-Theft
189
Motor Vehicle Theft
49
Arson
4
Violent Crime
64
Murder
2
Rape
5
Robbery
2
Aggravated Assault
55
Reporting Agency
Chilton County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Chilton County's crime figures on this page originate from Chilton 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
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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.