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Safety in Trinity · FBI data, 2023–2025

Trinity reports less crime per resident than 63% of U.S. towns

On crimes reported to the FBI by Trinity’s police in 2023–2025, it grades B for safety: #15 of 130 graded towns in Alabama.

Violent crime
0.6
per 1,000 a year · Well below rest of AL (4.7)
U.S. (FBI national estimate) 3.6
Property crime
11.0
per 1,000 a year · Well below rest of AL (21.3)
U.S. (FBI national estimate) 17.6
Crimes reported
90
5 violent · 85 property
2023–2025
Trend
→ Steady
2023 to 2025
within ordinary swings

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 · In brief

What stands out about safety in Trinity

Trinity reports less crime than every graded town next door

Of the 1 Alabama towns on Trinity’s borders, 1 have a Safety Grade: Decatur (D). Neighbors ↓

Among Alabama towns, higher

Alabama’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Trinity’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 88% of the 130 Alabama towns we grade, against 63% nationally. Safety Grade ↓

Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.

Safety Grade

What’s behind Trinity’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.

Where Trinity sits
A− Violent 0.6B− Property 11.0
All U.S. towns we grade (7,426)Less crime than 63%
More reported crimeLess reported crime
Alabama towns we grade (130)Less crime than 88% · #15 of 130
Places of 1,000–5,000 people (2,448)Less crime than 53%
A fairly firm grade. Built on 90 reported crimes over three years. Ordinary swings could put Trinity anywhere from B to B+.

How TownRatings grades safety →

Violent crime

Violent crime, by year and by type

Trinity’s police reported 5 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.6 per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.7 in the rest of Alabama and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.

1,000 neighbors · one year

For every 1,000 residents, about 8 property crimes reported

And fewer than 1 violent crime, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.

Property crime (8.4)Violent crime (0.4)Everyone else

Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025

Trinity0.4
Rest of AL4.4
U.S. (FBI)3.3

Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025

Trinity8.4
Rest of AL19.9
U.S. (FBI)15.5

Crimes reported to police in 2025 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.

Trend

Reported crime is steady

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.

Show as a table
YearTrinity propertyRest of Alabama propertyTrinity violentRest of Alabama violent
202220.424.83.15.4
202313.322.31.24.9
202411.221.70.44.8
20258.419.90.44.4

Crimes per 1,000 residents

What gets reported

23 crimes reported in 2025

1 violent and 22 property, as reported to the FBI by Trinity’s police.

2025 offenses reported

Larceny / theft14
Burglary3
Vehicle theft5
Aggravated assault0
Robbery0
Rape1
Homicide0
Arson0
1
violent crimes
22
property crimes

Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.

On the roads

No one died in a crash on Trinity’s roads in 2019–2023

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 Trinity’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Trinity’s own rate (0.0) is context, not a ranking.

0
people died in crashes, 2019–2023
0
pedestrians among them
0
cyclists among them
0.0
per 100,000 a year · Alabama towns of 2,500–5,000: 11.2

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.

Next door

Trinity and its neighbors

How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.

A rangeB rangeC rangeD rangeNot graded
TownGradeViolentProperty
TrinityB0.611.0
DecaturD5.821.5

Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.

Alabama towns of a similar size

TownGradeViolentProperty
TrinityB0.611.0
LuverneC+1.617.5
La FayetteC3.113.6
CentrevilleC4.610.0
SilverhillC−4.620.1
SumitonD2.336.9

The five graded Alabama towns closest to Trinity’s population (2,638), by grade.

How to read these numbers

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 Trinity. 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 Trinity’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
  • Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (2,619 in 2025); our figure for Trinity is 2,638 (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 Trinity

Is Trinity, AL safe?

On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Trinity reports less crime per resident than 63% of U.S. towns, a B Safety Grade and #15 of 130 in Alabama. Its police reported 0.6 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 Trinity?

0.6 violent and 11.0 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.

Is crime going up or down in Trinity?

Reported crime per resident was steady from 2023 to 2025: the change is within ordinary year-to-year swings.

Is Trinity safer than Decatur?

Decatur reports more crime per resident than Trinity: Decatur grades D for safety and Trinity B. Decatur’s police reported 5.8 violent and 21.5 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.

Who polices Trinity?

Trinity’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Trinity”. 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.