County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
Colbert County, AL
At 57,227 residents, Colbert County is a large county in Alabama. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Colbert County, AL reported 26 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Colbert County, AL agencies reported 15 violent and 90 property offenses. That equals about 26 violent and 157 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
15 violent offenses
26/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Colbert County, AL
Small-count caution
The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable
Colbert County reported 15 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 57,227. 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.
2021–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 106.6 per 100,000 in 2021 to 26.2 in 2024 (-75.4%). The highest observed value was 106.6 in 2021 and the lowest 26.2 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
Colbert County reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable Alabama counties
At 26.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Colbert County ranks 49 of 56 — above 7 of the 55 other Alabama counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -67.6% against the cohort median of 80.9. 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 14.3% of the 105 Part I offenses reported in Colbert County for 2024, against a median of 21.6% across comparable Alabama counties — a gap of 7.3 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.
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
90
Burglary
19
Larceny-Theft
55
Motor Vehicle Theft
16
Arson
1
Violent Crime
15
Murder
0
Rape
1
Robbery
0
Aggravated Assault
14
Reporting Agency
Colbert County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Colbert County's crime figures on this page originate from Colbert 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 Colbert County in population. Their populations run from 52,579 to 59,183, against 57,227 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.