Ten Oaks · Photo: Jeffery Steading · CC BY-SA 3.0Jacksonville records more crime per resident than 89% of U.S. towns
Police counts work out at 7.0 violent crimes and 18.6 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents annually; in the rest of Alabama they are 4.7 and 21.3. Violent crime here is higher than in 94% of U.S. towns; property crime, higher than in 74%. From 2023 to 2025, crimes Jacksonville’s police reported put it at D for safety: #94 of 130 graded towns in 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 Jacksonville
Among Alabama towns, closer to the middle
Alabama’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Jacksonville’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 28% of the 130 Alabama towns we grade, against 11% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
A college town
Jacksonville is home to Jacksonville State University, with 7,507 students taking classes on campus (federal college data), and 32% of residents are enrolled in college (Census). Students who live in town count as residents, so they are part of the per-resident rate. How to read it ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Jacksonville’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; property crime is the closer of the two to typical.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Jacksonville | Rest of Alabama | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 9.2 | 5.3 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 8.7 | 4.9 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 6.1 | 4.8 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 6.2 | 4.4 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Jacksonville’s police reported 308 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 7.0 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 Jacksonville 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 6 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Reported crime is steady
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| Year | Jacksonville property | Rest of Alabama property | Jacksonville violent | Rest of Alabama violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 20.0 | 24.8 | 9.2 | 5.3 |
| 2023 | 17.3 | 22.3 | 8.7 | 4.9 |
| 2024 | 16.6 | 21.8 | 6.1 | 4.8 |
| 2025 | 21.8 | 19.9 | 6.2 | 4.4 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident was steady from 2023 to 2025: the change is within ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of Alabama.
414 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.
92 violent and 322 property, as reported to the FBI by Jacksonville’s police.
Two people died in crashes on Jacksonville’s roads in 2019–2023
Jacksonville had 2 fatal crashes in five years, in which two people died; 1 was a pedestrian.
That is fewer than is typical for Alabama towns of 5,000–25,000 people: at their median rate (9.6 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Jacksonville’s size would see about 7 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Jacksonville’s own rate (2.8) 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.
Jacksonville and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jacksonville | D | 7.0 | 18.6 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Alabama towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jacksonville | D | 7.0 | 18.6 |
| Pell City | C | 2.7 | 20.1 |
| Ozark | D | 3.9 | 28.8 |
| Jasper | D | 4.1 | 40.5 |
| Talladega | D | 6.2 | 33.8 |
| Alexander City | D− | 8.7 | 37.3 |
The five graded Alabama towns closest to Jacksonville’s population (14,400), 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 Jacksonville. 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 Jacksonville’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (14,741 in 2025); our figure for Jacksonville is 14,400 (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 Jacksonville
Is Jacksonville, AL safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Jacksonville reports more crime per resident than 89% of U.S. towns, a D Safety Grade and #94 of 130 in Alabama. Its police reported 7.0 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 Jacksonville?
7.0 violent and 18.6 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 Jacksonville?
Jacksonville’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Jacksonville”. 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.