Bishop Manor Estate (Additional Documentation) · Photo: rossograph · CC BY-SA 4.0Bayou La Batre records more crime per resident than almost every U.S. town
Violent crime here is higher than in 97% of U.S. towns; property crime, higher than in 99%. Per resident, the graded crimes were down 11% from 2023 to 2025. Graded on crimes Bayou La Batre’s police reported from 2023 to 2025, it scores D− for safety. Annual rates stand at 9.2 violent crimes and 54.4 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 4.7 and 21.3 in the rest of Alabama.
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. “Rest of AL” is every other Alabama city and town in the FBI’s tables; the U.S. figure is the FBI’s national estimate as published, averaged over the three years. The FBI publishes no national homicide or robbery rate in our data, so those compare with all U.S. cities and towns in its tables.
What stands out about safety in Bayou La Batre
Reported crime is falling
Crime reported per resident fell from 2023 to 2025 by more than ordinary year-to-year swings, on the grade’s own score. Trend ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Bayou La Batre’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Both violent and property crime are higher than in most U.S. towns; violent crime is the closer of the two to typical.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Bayou La Batre | Rest of Alabama | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 11.5 | 5.3 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 14.0 | 4.9 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 8.9 | 4.8 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 4.7 | 4.4 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Bayou La Batre’s police reported 59 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 9.2 per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.7 in the rest of Alabama and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Crime in Bayou La Batre per 1,000 residents
Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Crimes reported to police in 2025 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.
And about 5 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Bayou La Batre property | Rest of Alabama property | Bayou La Batre violent | Rest of Alabama violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 57.7 | 24.8 | 11.5 | 5.3 |
| 2023 | 48.4 | 22.2 | 14.0 | 4.9 |
| 2024 | 64.0 | 21.7 | 8.9 | 4.8 |
| 2025 | 50.7 | 19.9 | 4.7 | 4.4 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of Alabama.
117 crimes reported in 2025
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
10 violent and 107 property, as reported to the FBI by Bayou La Batre’s police.
One person died in crashes on Bayou La Batre’s roads in 2019–2023
Bayou La Batre had 1 fatal crash in five years, in which one person died; 1 was a pedestrian.
That is about what is typical for Alabama towns of 2,500–5,000 people: at their median rate (11.2 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Bayou La Batre’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Bayou La Batre’s own rate (10.6) is context, not a ranking.
Deaths are counted where the crash happened, not where the people lived: a highway through town adds through-traffic deaths, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Town rates sit below state and U.S. rates because a third of fatal crashes happen outside any town. Road safety is described here and is not part of the Safety Grade. Source: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023.
Bayou La Batre and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bayou La Batre | D− | 9.2 | 54.4 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Alabama towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bayou La Batre | D− | 9.2 | 54.4 |
| Aliceville | B | 2.5 | 6.6 |
| Harpersville | B− | 1.9 | 11.2 |
| Guin | C+ | 3.4 | 11.6 |
| Stevenson | C− | 4.4 | 15.5 |
| Brundidge | D− | 10.4 | 46.6 |
The five graded Alabama towns closest to Bayou La Batre’s population (2,068), by grade.
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- It’s reported crime. Only incidents reported to and recorded by police appear here. Many crimes are never reported to police.
- One number for all of Bayou La Batre. A town-wide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of town to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Bayou La Batre’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (2,111 in 2025); our figure for Bayou La Batre is 2,068 (2025 Census estimate).
- Gaps are real gaps. A missing year means the department didn’t report a full year, not that nothing happened.
How the grade is calculated, for every town: How TownRatings grades safety →
Questions about safety in Bayou La Batre
Is Bayou La Batre, AL safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Bayou La Batre reports more crime per resident than 99% of U.S. towns, a D− Safety Grade. Its police reported 9.2 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.7 in the rest of Alabama and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Bayou La Batre?
9.2 violent and 54.4 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Alabama reports 4.7 and 21.3; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Who polices Bayou La Batre?
Bayou La Batre’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Bayou La Batre”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
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Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 2025, and state and national rates. Counts are crimes reported to police, not convictions. The Safety Grade is our own summary of that data, not an official rating. Road deaths: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023. This isn’t an official statement of public safety. In an emergency, call 911.