Crime in Decatur, Alabama
Major crime in Decatur is 10% above the U.S. rate per resident: 46% higher for persons crimes and about the same for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 16.7% 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 stands out most, at 1.8 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Decatur 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 Decatur
The middle half of Decatur residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 41 and 113; the typical (median) resident's is 79. The citywide figure (110) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5033.1%
- 50–10032.7%
- 100–20024.3%
- 200–4006.0%
- 400+3.9%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekends
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 16.7% 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.
Decatur against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
193 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Decatur; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Decatur 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, Trinity (5 mi), is 20% below Decatur's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Decatur
What are the most common crimes in Decatur?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 343 a year), aggravated assault (about 228 a year) and shoplifting (about 210 a year). Compared with the U.S., murder stands out most: 1.8 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. Decatur's figures add up its 42 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Decatur has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 59.6% 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: 60,082. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Decatur, Alabama." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/al/decatur
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Trinity5 mi88
- Hartselle10 mi92
- Athens15 mi105
- Madison17 mi51
- Harvest24 mi44
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- Cullman29 mi152
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