Crime rates for Prattville, AL

The crime rate in Prattville is considerably higher than the national average across all communities in America from the largest to the smallest, although at 57 crimes per one thousand residents, it is not among the communities with the very highest crime rate. The chance of becoming a victim of either violent or property crime in Prattville is 1 in 17. Based on FBI crime data, Prattville is not one of the safest communities in America. Relative to Alabama, Prattville has a crime rate that is higher than 80% of the state's cities and towns of all sizes.

Importantly, when you compare Prattville to other cities of similar population, the Prattville crime rate (violent and property crimes combined) is quite a bit higher than average. Regardless of how Prattville does relative to all communities in America of all sizes, when NeighborhoodScout compared it to communities of similar population size, its crime rate per thousand residents stands out as higher than most.

The crime data that NeighborhoodScout used for this analysis are the seven offenses from the uniform crime reports, collected by the FBI from 17,000 local law enforcement agencies, and include both violent and property crimes, combined.

Now let us turn to take a look at how Prattville does for violent crimes specifically, and then how it does for property crimes. This is important because the overall crime rate can be further illuminated by understanding if violent crime or property crimes (or both) are the major contributors to the general rate of crime in Prattville.

From our analysis, we discovered that violent crime in Prattville occurs at a rate higher than in most communities of all population sizes in America. The chance that a person will become a victim of a violent crime in Prattville – such as armed robbery, aggravated assault, rape or murder – is 1 in 227. This equates to a rate of 4 per one thousand inhabitants.

In addition, NeighborhoodScout found that a lot of the crime that takes place in Prattville is property crime. Property crimes that are tracked for this analysis are burglary, larceny over fifty dollars, motor vehicle theft, and arson. In Prattville, your chance of becoming a victim of a property crime is one in 19, which is a rate of 53 per one thousand population.