Crime in Alabaster, Alabama
Major crime in Alabaster is 60% below the U.S. rate per resident: 69% lower for persons crimes and 58% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 32.9% from a year earlier.
Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this
Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.
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Every crime type in Alabaster is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Alabaster for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Property crimes
Social disorder
How crime varies across Alabaster
The middle half of Alabaster residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 11 and 22; the typical (median) resident's is 18. The citywide figure (40) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5088.3%
- 50–1007.3%
- 100–2000.0%
- 200–4001.9%
- 400+2.5%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest in the daytime
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 32.9% in a year; across Alabama it fell 8.3%
Change in expected crimes, with Alabama as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.
Alabaster against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
822 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Alabaster; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Alabaster has a higher major-crime index than 1 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Helena (5 mi), is 37% below Alabaster's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Alabaster
What are the most common crimes in Alabaster?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 124 a year), other larceny (about 63 a year) and aggravated assault (about 30 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: about the U.S. rate per resident.
How we calculated this
Each police agency's crimes, as reported to the FBI, are spread across the census block groups it serves using population, jobs, points of interest and, where available, local incident records. Alabaster's figures add up its 20 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Alabaster has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 1.9% of residents live in block groups whose estimate has high confidence (80% interval within about 5x).
- Rates are per resident, so places where many people work or visit but few live, such as downtowns, airports and stadiums, can read high.
- Disorderly conduct and trespassing are modeled, because the FBI records them only through arrests.
- Residents: 37,539. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Alabaster, Alabama." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/al/alabaster
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Helena5 mi25
- Pelham6 mi52
- Montevallo8 mi56
- Calera8 mi53
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- Bessemer14 mi462
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