Crime in Arab, Alabama
Major crime in Arab is 41% above the U.S. rate per resident: about the same for persons crimes and 1.5 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.6% 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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Drugs and alcohol stands out most, at 4.9 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Arab 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 Arab
The middle half of Arab residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 97 and 179; the typical (median) resident's is 160.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–10035.7%
- 100–20064.3%
- 200–4000.0%
- 400+0.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest at night
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 8.6% 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.
Arab against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
291 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Arab; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Arab has a higher major-crime index than 6 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Guntersville (10 mi), is about Arab's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Arab
What are the most common crimes in Arab?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 93 a year), burglary (about 40 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 25 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 4.9 times 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. Arab's figures add up its 6 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Arab has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 20.8% 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: 9,051. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Arab, Alabama." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/al/arab
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Guntersville10 mi135
- Albertville17 mi90
- Boaz21 mi61
- Cullman22 mi152
- Hanceville24 mi73
- Oneonta26 mi145
- Hartselle27 mi92
- Huntsville27 mi132