CrimeMetric

Crime in Boaz, Alabama

Major crime in Boaz is 39% below the U.S. rate per resident: 69% lower for persons crimes and 33% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.6% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
61
39% below the U.S. rate
40% below the Alabama rate
down 7.6% in a year
Persons crimes
31
69% below the U.S. rate
71% below the Alabama rate
down 3.9% in a year
Property crimes
67
33% below the U.S. rate
32% below the Alabama rate
down 7.9% in a year
Social disorder
90
10% below the U.S. rate
34% below the Alabama rate
down 5.3% 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

Intimidation stands out most, at 47% above the U.S. rate

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

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

How crime varies across Boaz

The middle half of Boaz residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 50 and 54; the typical (median) resident's is 51. The citywide figure (61) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Boaz, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the bar's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5044.0%
  • 50–10038.4%
  • 100–20017.6%
  • 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 weekday daytimes

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

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm72
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am51
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm52
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am58
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 7.6% in a year; across Alabama it fell 8.3%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-7.6%AL -8.3%-11.1%AL -12.4%
Persons crimes-3.9%AL -5.4%+3.7%AL -0.5%
Property crimes-7.9%AL -8.9%-12.6%AL -15.2%
Social disorder-5.3%AL -5.4%-2.0%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

Boaz against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents

1,129 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Boaz; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:

Sequim, WA9,51493
Keokuk, IA9,49287
Waseca, MN9,49063
Boaz, AL9,49961

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

Nearby places

Boaz 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, Albertville (4 mi), is 49% above Boaz's rate.

Attalla14 mi267
Oneonta25 mi145
Arab21 mi141
Guntersville12 mi135
Gadsden16 mi126
Boaz61
Glencoe22 mi19

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

Questions about crime in Boaz

What are the most common crimes in Boaz?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 64 a year), aggravated assault (about 8 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 8 a year). Compared with the U.S., intimidation stands out most: 47% above 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. Boaz's figures add up its 7 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Boaz 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: 9,499. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100