Crime in Gadsden, Alabama
Major crime in Gadsden is 26% above the U.S. rate per resident: 25% higher for persons crimes and 27% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 19.1% 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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Intimidation stands out most, at 3.5 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Gadsden 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 Gadsden
The middle half of Gadsden residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 63 and 110; the typical (median) resident's is 88. The citywide figure (126) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5013.6%
- 50–10045.8%
- 100–20029.7%
- 200–4007.2%
- 400+3.7%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 19.1% 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.
Gadsden against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
196 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Gadsden; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Gadsden 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, Rainbow City (5 mi), is 52% below Gadsden's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Gadsden
What are the most common crimes in Gadsden?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 354 a year), aggravated assault (about 114 a year) and shoplifting (about 114 a year). Compared with the U.S., intimidation stands out most: 3.5 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. Gadsden's figures add up its 42 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Gadsden has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 9.6% 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: 35,208. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Gadsden, Alabama." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/al/gadsden
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