Violent crime in Mobile fell by 11 percent in 2024 despite a small uptick in homicides, according to the Mobile Police Department’s annual crime report.

The report calculates violent crimes as all documented cases of homicide, rape, robbery and aggravated assault.

Violent crime incidents totaled 1562 in 2024 compared to 1750 in 2023. Most incidents were for aggravated assaults which amounted to 1330 cases.

From 2023 to 2024 all of these crimes were down except for homicides which slightly grew from 33 to 38, including a vehicle manslaughter incident.

According to the report, most homicides in 2024 occurred in March with 7. The majority of murders were because of altercations, 13, followed by domestic violence and unknown reasons, both at 7.

Based on the report documented violent crimes continue to trend down since 2021.