County crime profile · 2024 · very large county · property-led
At 674,721 residents, Jefferson County is a very large county in Alabama. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Data updated 2026-08-24
Jefferson County, AL reported 96 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Jefferson County, AL agencies reported 650 violent and 2,725 property offenses. That equals about 96 violent and 404 property crimes per 100,000 using a verified Census population join. Table 10 coverage is a voluntary subset of U.S. counties.
Share of the state cohort
The 3,375 Part I offenses reported here are 19.9% of the 16,959 reported across all 56 comparable Alabama counties in 2024. A county this large moves the statewide total on its own, so state-level changes should be read against its population of 674,721 rather than as a uniform shift.
Position in the state cohort
At 96.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Jefferson County ranks 20 of 56 — above 36 of the 55 other Alabama counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +28.4% 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
Across 3 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 117.2 per 100,000 in 2022 to 96.3 in 2024 (-17.8%). The highest observed value was 117.2 in 2022 and the lowest 96.3 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
On a very 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.
| Category | Count |
|---|---|
| Property Crime | 2,725 |
| Burglary | 663 |
| Larceny-Theft | 1,663 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 399 |
| Arson | 17 |
| Violent Crime | 650 |
| Murder | 11 |
| Rape | 24 |
| Robbery | 79 |
| Aggravated Assault | 536 |
Jefferson County's crime figures on this page originate from Jefferson 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.
A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the Alabama counties closest to Jefferson County in population. Their populations run from 227,036 to 414,809, against 674,721 here. Or launch the side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two jurisdictions directly.
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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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