Mobile is the second-largest city in Alabama, with 232,300 residents in Mobile County · Updated November 2026
How common is violent crime in Mobile?
Violent crime is high in Mobile: a C-, with more violent crime than the neighborhoods where 90% of Americans live. Assaults make up 96% of it, and most of those are simple assaults, which involve no weapon and no serious injury.
C-
Violent crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 357 of 1,000More violent crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
10% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more violent crime than Mobile as a whole, and 90% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a violent crime safety score of 860, a CrimeGrade™ of A. Mobile scores 357.
Crime is concentrated in a small share of places, so most neighborhoods score high on the 0 to 1,000 scale. That is why a score in the 800s can still mean more violent crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its violent crime with the people who spend time there, on one national scale, from green for the least to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy downtown or nightlife strip can show red while the homes around it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a solid connection. Compare high speed internet in Mobile, AL at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Mobile, and anyone thinking about buying or renting a home there.
Business and enterprise customers: this free map shows neighborhood areas. CrimeGrade™ business reports map crime at about 66-meter detail and estimate it for one address and type of business. See business reports
What stands out about violent crime in Mobile
Robbery is a strength. Mobile grades C- for violent crime, but robbery grades A.
Aggravated assaults run high. Mobile has aggravated assaults at more than double the US rate: 6.7 a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.6 nationally.
Where violent crime is lowest and highest in Mobile
Violent crime changes a lot from one part of Mobile to the next: 51% of residents live in areas graded A or B, while 33% live in areas graded D or F. Violent crime grades across Mobile run from A+ to F.
51%16%33%
A or B 51%C 16%D or F 33%
Share of residents, by the violent crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
5Dauphin Acres, Bolton & Llanfair, centralRobberies run about 20% lower here than in the rest of Mobile.C-336
6Gorgas, Fisher & Owens, northeastAggravated assaults run about 80% higher here than in the rest of Mobile.F0
7Washington Square, Texas Street & Mobile Central Business District, eastAggravated assaults run about 70% higher here than in the rest of Mobile.F0
8College Park, Carver & Beau Terra, northAggravated assaults run about 60% higher here than in the rest of Mobile.F0
9Maryvale, Bayview & Rosedale, southeastRobberies run at more than double the rate in the rest of Mobile.F0
Neighborhood areas of Mobile, ranked by violent crime CrimeGrade™; beside each grade is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer). Each one combines several of the smaller areas on the map.
Violent crime rates and types in Mobile
CrimeGrade™ estimates Mobile has about 27 reported violent crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, about double the rate for the US as a whole and 57% more than Alabama.
All violent crime
Assaults
Robbery
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. Violent crime here includes simple assaults, which the FBI's violent crime rate leaves out.
Assault is the most common violent crime in Mobile, about 96% of the total. Murder and rape are far rarer, but they account for 49% of the cost of violent crime here.
Each CrimeGrade™ here compares a violent crime with the people who spend time in an area, not only the people who live there. Rates count crimes per 1,000 residents.
Select a crime's name to see its map above. CrimeGrade™ business reports map each crime at about 66-meter detail.
Where and when violent crime happens in Mobile
Mobile has its own police department, and these figures come from its reports, 2022 to 2024.
In Mobile, 61% of aggravated assaults happen at a home, against 53% nationally. Robberies happen most often at stores and businesses: 35% of them.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Robbery
Stores and businesses (35%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (61%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Shares of the crimes reported to police, 2022 to 2024. Reports with no time recorded are left out of the times.
Violent crime in Mobile and nearby cities
Of the 10 cities closest to Mobile, 9 have less violent crime. Tanner Williams and Seven Hills have the least.
Mobile looks like a typical city on the traits that tend to go with violent crime.
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Mobile: F (0 of 100).NoneUS: noneLower than for 84% of US city residents
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more robbery.56 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher than for 71% of US city residents
Walk GradeBestNeighborhood's grade for getting through daily life on foot, traced along real walking routes to shops, schools and parks. Walkable places tend to report more assault. 84% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D (15 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 58% of US city residents
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Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery.9% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 63% of US city residents
BestNeighborhood, a sister site of CrimeGrade™, ranks the neighborhoods of Mobile on shops, parks, home prices, getting around and more.
These traits tend to go with more or less crime; none of them causes it on its own. Sources: Census job counts and housing figures, OpenStreetMap and Overture business listings, CrimeGrade™ parking estimates, NASA night-light imagery, US Forest Service tree cover, EPA transit data and BestNeighborhood's Walk Grade.
What violent crime costs Mobile
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, violent crime costs Mobile about $818 million a year, or $3,520 per resident. The costs that reach a bill, such as medical care, lost work and the justice system, come to about $158 million, or $679 per resident.
Billed cost of violent crime per resident, per year
How the cost breaks down
Pain and suffering are about 81% of that full cost.
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$72 million
$311
Rape
$4.3 million
$18
Robbery
$3.9 million
$17
Assault
$77 million
$333
Total
$158 million
$679
How CrimeGrade™ works
The violent crime CrimeGrade™ covers murder, rape, robbery and assault, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most, on one scale for the whole country.
It weighs each violent crime against the people who spend time in an area, so a busy downtown is graded on its workers and visitors as well as its residents.
The rates on this page count crimes for every 1,000 people who live here, the way police departments report them.
Comparisons with US neighborhoods use the Census Bureau's block groups, small areas of about 1,400 residents, and count the people who live in each. The figures count crimes reported to police; many crimes, shoplifting above all, never are. Behind the grades, CrimeGrade™ tested 21,607 factors from 125 data families. For business owners, paid CrimeGrade™ location reports estimate crime at a single address for each type of business.
Where the numbers come from
Crime reports that police departments file with the FBI
State crime records and city crime data, where they are published
Published research on what crime costs victims and communities
These are estimates of reported crime for whole areas, not a record of what happened on any one street. CrimeGrade™ updates them once a year and provides them free and without guarantee. Check local sources before you rely on them for a decision.
