Methodist Episcopal Church, South · Photo: Chris Pruitt · CC BY-SA 3.0Reported crime per resident in Daphne fell 29% from 2023 to 2025
Overall, Daphne grades B+ for safety (#10 of 130 graded towns in Alabama): less crime per resident than 70% of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported to the FBI in 2023–2025.
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 Daphne
Daphne reports less crime than every graded town next door
Of the 2 Alabama towns on Daphne’s borders, 2 have a Safety Grade: Spanish Fort (B), Fairhope (B−). Neighbors ↓
Among Alabama towns, higher
Alabama’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Daphne’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 92% of the 130 Alabama towns we grade, against 70% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
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 Daphne’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 lower than in most U.S. towns; violent crime is the stronger of the two.
Violent crime, by year and by type
Daphne’s police reported 50 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.5 per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.7 in the rest of Alabama and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
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| Year | Daphne | Rest of Alabama | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 0.7 | 5.4 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 0.5 | 4.9 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 0.5 | 4.8 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.6 | 4.4 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Reported crime is falling
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.
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| Year | Daphne property | Rest of Alabama property | Daphne violent | Rest of Alabama violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 12.2 | 25.0 | 0.7 | 5.4 |
| 2023 | 11.5 | 22.4 | 0.5 | 4.9 |
| 2024 | 8.4 | 21.9 | 0.5 | 4.8 |
| 2025 | 7.9 | 20.0 | 0.6 | 4.4 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
For every 1,000 residents, about 8 property crimes reported
And about 1 violent crime, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
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.
267 crimes reported in 2025
18 violent and 249 property, as reported to the FBI by Daphne’s police.
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
14 people died in crashes on Daphne’s roads in 2019–2023
Daphne had 14 fatal crashes in five years, in which 14 people died; 1 was a pedestrian. 6 died in crashes on an Interstate.
That is 9.5 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, about the same as the median for Alabama towns of 25,000–100,000 people (9.5, 19 towns).
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.
Daphne and its neighbors
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daphne | B+ | 0.5 | 9.3 |
| Spanish Fort | B | 0.9 | 12.6 |
| Fairhope | B− | 1.4 | 12.4 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
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 Daphne. 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 Daphne’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (31,568 in 2025); our figure for Daphne is 31,396 (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 Daphne
Is Daphne, AL safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Daphne reports less crime per resident than 70% of U.S. towns, a B+ Safety Grade and #10 of 130 in Alabama. Its police reported 0.5 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 Daphne?
0.5 violent and 9.3 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Alabama reports 4.7 and 21.4; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Is crime going up or down in Daphne?
Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings.
How many homicides were there in Daphne in 2025?
Daphne’s police reported 0 homicides to the FBI for 2025, 0.0 per 100,000 residents. Across U.S. cities and towns in the FBI’s tables the 2025 figure was 4.6.
Is Daphne safer than Spanish Fort?
Spanish Fort reports more crime per resident than Daphne: Spanish Fort grades B for safety and Daphne B+. Spanish Fort’s police reported 0.9 violent and 12.6 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Daphne?
Daphne’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Daphne”. 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.