County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led

Cleburne County, AL

Cleburne County (15,056 people) sits in the mid-size county band in Alabama. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.

Data updated 2026-08-24

111
Property offenses
19
Violent offenses
130
Total · 2024

Cleburne County, AL reported 126 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024

According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Cleburne County, AL agencies reported 19 violent and 111 property offenses. That equals about 126 violent and 737 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
  • 19 violent offenses
  • 126/100K violent rate

What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Cleburne County, AL

Small-count caution

The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable

Cleburne County reported 19 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 15,056. 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.

Position in the state cohort

Cleburne County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Alabama counties

At 126.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Cleburne County ranks 13 of 56 — above 43 of the 55 other Alabama counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +68.2% 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.

Offense mix

The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort

Violent offenses are 14.6% of the 130 Part I offenses reported in Cleburne County for 2024, against a median of 21.6% across comparable Alabama counties — a gap of 7.0 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

Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort

Larceny-theft is 73.0% of reported property offenses in Cleburne County, against a cohort median of 61.8%. The remainder is burglary (29) and motor vehicle theft (1). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.

2021–2024 direction

The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher

Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 119.6 per 100,000 in 2021 to 126.2 in 2024 (+5.6%). The highest observed value was 126.2 in 2024 and the lowest 66.4 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.

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 111
Burglary 29
Larceny-Theft 81
Motor Vehicle Theft 1
Arson 0
Violent Crime 19
Murder 3
Rape 0
Robbery 0
Aggravated Assault 16

Reporting Agency

Cleburne County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating

Cleburne County's crime figures on this page originate from Cleburne 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 Cleburne County in population. Their populations run from 13,194 to 16,321, against 15,056 here. Or launch the side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two jurisdictions directly.

ZIP Codes in Cleburne County

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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.

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