Crime Grade · FBI UCR Data · 2025
Muscle Shoals, AL Crime Grade
How Muscle Shoals 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
6/10
vs. all U.S. cities ≥ 25,000 population
Alabama
4/10
vs. Alabama cities ≥ 10,000 population
In 2025, the violent crime rate in Muscle Shoals, AL was 215.0 per 100,000 residents (38 incidents over a population of 17,678). That puts Muscle Shoals 34% below the U.S. rate of 325.3 and 39% below the Alabama statewide rate of 350.8.
That ranks Muscle Shoals #2,148 of 3,771 ranked U.S. cities, safer than 43% of them, and #26 of 63 in Alabama. Violent crime is up 21% year over year and down 8% over the last five years.
Muscle Shoals, AL crime — key facts
- National Crime Grade
- C (6/10)
- Alabama Grade
- B (4/10)
- Violent crime rate
- 215.0 / 100k
- National rank
- #2,148 of 3,771
- AL rank
- #26 of 63
- Safer than
- 43% of U.S. cities
- Year over year
- up 21%
- 5-year change
- down 8%
- Population
- 17,678
- Reporting agency
- Muscle Shoals Police Department
- Data year
- 2025 · FBI UCR
Reported by Muscle Shoals Police Department (FBI ORI AL0200300) to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program. Download the full dataset (CSV) · methodology.
About Muscle Shoals, AL
Also known as
- Tri-Cities
- The Shoals
- Dagunahi
- Quad Cities
- Chustanaluyi
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. Muscle Shoals (red), Alabama (blue), U.S. average (gray dashed).
Muscle Shoals 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 | 232.5(35) | 372.4(63) | 270.6(47) | 177.1(31) | 215.0(38) |
| Murder | 6.6(1) | 0.0(0) | 0.0(0) | 0.0(0) | 5.7(1) |
| Rape | 33.2(5) | 35.5(6) | 28.8(5) | 34.3(6) | 33.9(6) |
| Robbery | 13.3(2) | 5.9(1) | 5.8(1) | 17.1(3) | 5.7(1) |
| Aggravated assault | 179.4(27) | 331.0(56) | 236.1(41) | 125.7(22) | 169.7(30) |
| Property crime | 3428.3(516) | 2512.3(425) | 2850.1(495) | 2994.1(524) | 1798.8(318) |
| Burglary | 1069.7(161) | 183.2(31) | 259.1(45) | 114.3(20) | 73.5(13) |
| Larceny | 2106.2(317) | 2169.4(367) | 2424.0(421) | 2697.0(472) | 1623.5(287) |
| Motor vehicle theft | 245.8(37) | 153.7(26) | 161.2(28) | 182.8(32) | 101.8(18) |
How the Crime Grade is calculated
- What is the source of the Muscle Shoals, 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 Muscle Shoals 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 Muscle Shoals calculated?
- Muscle Shoals'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 Muscle Shoals 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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