Crime Grade · FBI UCR Data · 2025
Mountain Brook, AL Crime Grade
How Mountain Brook grades for violent crime against every other reporting U.S. city — and against the rest of Alabama — based on the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting data.
National
1/10
vs. all U.S. cities ≥ 25,000 population
Alabama
1/10
vs. Alabama cities ≥ 10,000 population
In 2025, the violent crime rate in Mountain Brook, AL was 18.6 per 100,000 residents (4 incidents over a population of 21,505). That puts Mountain Brook 94% below the U.S. rate of 325.3 and 95% below the Alabama statewide rate of 350.8.
That ranks Mountain Brook #121 of 3,771 ranked U.S. cities, safer than 97% of them, and #1 of 63 in Alabama. Violent crime is down 73% year over year and down 77% over the last five years.
Mountain Brook, AL crime — key facts
- National Crime Grade
- A (1/10)
- Alabama Grade
- A (1/10)
- Violent crime rate
- 18.6 / 100k
- National rank
- #121 of 3,771
- AL rank
- #1 of 63
- Safer than
- 97% of U.S. cities
- Year over year
- down 73%
- 5-year change
- down 77%
- Population
- 21,505
- Reporting agency
- Mountain Brook Police Department
- Data year
- 2025 · FBI UCR
Reported by Mountain Brook Police Department (FBI ORI AL0010300) to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program. Download the full dataset (CSV) · methodology.
About Mountain Brook, AL
Also known as
- Waddell
Name history sourced from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) — public-domain federal geographic-names data.
Violent crime rate, 5-year trend
Per 100,000 residents. Mountain Brook (red), Alabama (blue), U.S. average (gray dashed).
Mountain Brook vs. U.S., 2025 — by offense
Rates per 100,000 residents for each offense category.
Full data, last 5 years
Rates per 100,000 residents. Raw counts in parentheses.
| Offense | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violent crime | 80.0(16) | 27.4(6) | 69.2(15) | 69.8(15) | 18.6(4) |
| Murder | 0.0(0) | 0.0(0) | 4.6(1) | 0.0(0) | 0.0(0) |
| Rape | 15.0(3) | 4.6(1) | 13.8(3) | 9.3(2) | 9.3(2) |
| Robbery | 5.0(1) | 0.0(0) | 9.2(2) | 18.6(4) | 4.7(1) |
| Aggravated assault | 60.0(12) | 22.8(5) | 41.5(9) | 41.9(9) | 4.7(1) |
| Property crime | 1134.7(227) | 972.2(213) | 1019.1(221) | 786.6(169) | 641.7(138) |
| Burglary | 194.9(39) | 173.4(38) | 110.7(24) | 102.4(22) | 74.4(16) |
| Larceny | 839.7(168) | 753.1(165) | 848.5(184) | 651.6(140) | 530.1(114) |
| Motor vehicle theft | 95.0(19) | 41.1(9) | 59.9(13) | 32.6(7) | 27.9(6) |
How the Crime Grade is calculated
- What is the source of the Mountain Brook, AL Crime Grade?
- FBI Uniform Crime Reporting via the Crime Data Explorer. Agency-level data, pulled directly. No third-party aggregators, no proprietary score.
- What metric does the Mountain Brook Crime Grade use?
- Violent crime rate per 100,000 residents (murder + rape + robbery + aggravated assault), most recent fully-reported year.
- How is the national decile for Mountain Brook calculated?
- Mountain Brook's rate placed against all FBI-reporting U.S. cities with population ≥ 25,000. 1 = safest.
- How is the Alabama state decile calculated?
- Same calculation restricted to Alabama cities with population ≥ 10,000.
- How do decile scores convert to a letter grade?
- 1–3 = A · 4–5 = B · 6–7 = C · 8 = D · 9–10 = F.
- How often is the Mountain Brook Crime Grade refreshed?
- Twice a year. The FBI typically releases the prior year's full data each September.
- What are the limits of this Crime Grade?
- The FBI relies on local agency reporting. Rates reflect what was reported, not what occurred.
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