Crime in Clay, Alabama
Major crime in Clay is 33% below the U.S. rate per resident: 17% lower for persons crimes and 37% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 15.5% 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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Murder and intimidation stand out most, at about 23% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Clay 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 Clay
The middle half of Clay residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 33 and 85; the typical (median) resident's is 43. The citywide figure (67) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5069.3%
- 50–10013.3%
- 100–20017.4%
- 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.
About the same at every time of week
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 15.5% 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.
Clay against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
1,170 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Clay; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Clay has a higher major-crime index than 4 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Pinson (2 mi), is 46% above Clay's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Clay
What are the most common crimes in Clay?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 48 a year), aggravated assault (about 22 a year) and burglary (about 20 a year). Compared with the U.S., murder stands out most: 23% 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. Clay's figures add up its 7 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Clay 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: 10,313. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Clay, Alabama." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/al/clay
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Pinson2 mi98
- Grayson Valley4 mi99
- Trussville5 mi70
- Center Point6 mi169
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