CrimeMetric

Crime in Calera, Alabama

Major crime in Calera is 47% below the U.S. rate per resident: 37% lower for persons crimes and 49% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.8% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
53
47% below the U.S. rate
47% below the Alabama rate
down 7.8% in a year
Persons crimes
63
37% below the U.S. rate
41% below the Alabama rate
down 6.2% in a year
Property crimes
51
49% below the U.S. rate
49% below the Alabama rate
down 8.2% in a year
Social disorder
78
22% below the U.S. rate
42% below the Alabama rate
down 6.1% 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

Every crime type in Calera is near or below the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Calera 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 Calera

The middle half of Calera residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 31 and 46; the typical (median) resident's is 35. The citywide figure (53) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Calera, 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.
  • 0–5086.1%
  • 50–1000.0%
  • 100–20013.9%
  • 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 6pm62
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am47
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm48
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am46
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 7.8% in a year; across Alabama it fell 8.3%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-7.8%AL -8.3%-2.1%AL -12.4%
Persons crimes-6.2%AL -5.4%+10.3%AL -0.5%
Property crimes-8.2%AL -8.9%-5.6%AL -15.2%
Social disorder-6.1%AL -5.4%+2.7%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

Calera against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents

1,417 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Calera; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:

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

Nearby places

Calera has a higher major-crime index than 5 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Montevallo (6 mi), is about Calera's rate.

Clanton21 mi167
McCalla20 mi70
Calera53
Pelham12 mi52
Hoover18 mi49
Alabaster8 mi40
Helena13 mi25

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

Questions about crime in Calera

What are the most common crimes in Calera?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 70 a year), aggravated assault (about 28 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 19 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol 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. Calera's figures add up its 7 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Calera has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
  • 10.2% 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: 17,891. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100