CrimeMetric

Crime in Foley, Alabama

Major crime in Foley is 43% below the U.S. rate per resident: 52% lower for persons crimes and 41% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 12.8% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
57
43% below the U.S. rate
43% below the Alabama rate
down 12.8% in a year
Persons crimes
49
52% below the U.S. rate
55% below the Alabama rate
down 14.0% in a year
Property crimes
59
41% below the U.S. rate
40% below the Alabama rate
down 12.5% in a year
Social disorder
88
12% below the U.S. rate
35% below the Alabama rate
down 13.1% 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

Drugs and alcohol stands out most, at 1.7 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Foley 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 Foley

The middle half of Foley residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 25 and 52; the typical (median) resident's is 38. The citywide figure (57) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Foley, 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. Tap one to compare it. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5070.7%
  • 50–10015.0%
  • 100–2006.0%
  • 200–4008.3%
  • 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 weekend daytimes

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

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm64
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am46
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm72
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am48
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 12.8% in a year; across Alabama it fell 8.3%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-12.8%AL -8.3%-0.7%AL -12.4%
Persons crimes-14.0%AL -5.4%+13.2%AL -0.5%
Property crimes-12.5%AL -8.9%-3.3%AL -15.2%
Social disorder-13.1%AL -5.4%+4.2%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

Foley against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents

647 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Foley; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:

Foley, AL35,97957
Graham, WA35,88356

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

Nearby places

Foley has a higher major-crime index than 2 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Gulf Shores (7 mi), is 1.9 times Foley's rate.

Robertsdale12 mi112
Fairhope15 mi70
Foley57
Daphne21 mi42

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

Questions about crime in Foley

What are the most common crimes in Foley?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 122 a year), other larceny (about 92 a year) and aggravated assault (about 47 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 1.7 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. Foley's figures add up its 10 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Foley has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
  • 51.9% 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: 35,979. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100