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Birmingham, AL · the CityFunIndex

Safety in Birmingham

Birmingham ranks T#125 of 134 US cities for staying safe, with a safety score of 10 — Quiet. That puts it in the 7th percentile nationally and #2 of 2 in Alabama.

safety score
10
Quiet
National rank
T#125 of 134
In Alabama
#2 of 2
Percentile
7th

The typical city scores 50 for staying safe; Birmingham sits 40 points below the median.

How safety is measured

Reported violent and property crime rates.

The safety score is the flip side of our crime measure — 100 minus the raw crime score — so a city with less of it scores higher.

Data sources: FBI Crime Data Explorer and city open-data crime portals.

Full methodology → Glossary The raw measurement is part of the Data plan →

Ranked around Birmingham

  1. T#123 Little Rock, AR 11
  2. T#123 Minneapolis, MN 11
  3. T#125 Birmingham, AL — this page 10
  4. T#128 New Orleans, LA 9
  5. T#128 St. Louis, MO 9

See the full leaderboard — The safest cities in America →

Top US cities for staying safe

  1. #1 Jackson, WY 100
  2. #2 Gilbert, AZ 99
  3. T#3 Boise, ID 98
  4. T#3 Santa Clarita, CA 98
  5. #5 Irvine, CA 97

More about Birmingham

Birmingham scores 58 overall (Fun) on the CityFunIndex. Its strongest factors: