County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
Lee County, AL
At 174,241 residents, Lee County is a large county in Alabama. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Lee County, AL reported 124 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Lee County, AL agencies reported 216 violent and 539 property offenses. That equals about 124 violent and 309 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
216 violent offenses
124/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Lee County, AL
Position in the state cohort
Lee County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Alabama counties
At 124.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Lee County ranks 14 of 56 — above 42 of the 55 other Alabama counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +65.3% 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 higher
Across 3 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 93.0 per 100,000 in 2022 to 124.0 in 2024 (+33.3%). The highest observed value was 124.0 in 2024 and the lowest 93.0 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 28.6% of the 755 Part I offenses reported in Lee County for 2024, against a median of 21.3% 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 72.5% of reported property offenses in Lee County, against a cohort median of 61.8%. The remainder is burglary (80) and motor vehicle theft (68). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
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
539
Burglary
80
Larceny-Theft
391
Motor Vehicle Theft
68
Arson
3
Violent Crime
216
Murder
5
Rape
26
Robbery
6
Aggravated Assault
179
Reporting Agency
Lee County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Lee County's crime figures on this page originate from Lee 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.