CrimeMetric

Crime in Ashford, Alabama

Major crime in Ashford is 45% below the U.S. rate per resident: 15% lower for persons crimes and 52% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 9.3% from a year earlier.

Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this

Major crime
55
45% below the U.S. rate
45% below the Alabama rate
down 9.3% in a year
Persons crimes
86
15% below the U.S. rate
21% below the Alabama rate
about flat in a year
Property crimes
48
52% below the U.S. rate
51% below the Alabama rate
down 12.3% in a year
Social disorder
112
12% above the U.S. rate
17% below the Alabama rate
down 3.1% in a year

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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Crime by type

Simple assault stands out most, at 1.6 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Ashford for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

Neighborhoods in Ashford

Ashford is made up of 3 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 60; the middle half of residents live where it is between 42 and 65.

Map of Ashford, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the key's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5036.7%
  • 50–10063.3%
  • 100–2000.0%
  • 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.

When it happens

Highest on weeknights

Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm55
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am57
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm51
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am53
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 9.3% in a year; across Alabama it fell 8.3%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-9.3%AL -8.3%-8.6%AL -12.4%
Persons crimes-0.6%AL -5.4%+5.0%AL -0.5%
Property crimes-12.3%AL -8.9%-13.9%AL -15.2%
Social disorder-3.1%AL -5.4%-1.4%AL -5.7%

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.

Similar-size places

Ashford against U.S. places with 2,000 to 5,000 residents

945 of the 1,761 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Ashford; the middle of the group is 58. The 9 nearest in population:

Ashford, AL4,25255
Perry, NY4,24850

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.

Nearby places

Ashford 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, Dothan (11 mi), is 3.4 times Ashford's rate.

Dothan11 mi185
Blakely, GA22 mi137
Daleville29 mi109
Abbeville26 mi87
Headland13 mi71
Ashford55

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.

Questions about crime in Ashford

What are the most common crimes in Ashford?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 13 a year), aggravated assault (about 9 a year) and burglary (about 7 a year). Compared with the U.S., simple assault stands out most: 1.6 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. Ashford's figures add up its 3 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Ashford has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
  • 0.0% 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: 4,252. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Ashford, Alabama." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/al/ashford

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100