CrimeMetric

Crime in Montevallo, Alabama

Major crime in Montevallo is 44% below the U.S. rate per resident: 58% lower for persons crimes and 42% 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
56
44% below the U.S. rate
45% below the Alabama rate
down 7.8% in a year
Persons crimes
43
58% below the U.S. rate
61% below the Alabama rate
down 11.4% in a year
Property crimes
59
42% below the U.S. rate
41% below the Alabama rate
down 7.2% in a year
Social disorder
175
1.8 times the U.S. rate
30% above the Alabama rate
down 7.7% 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 4.8 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Montevallo for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

Neighborhoods in Montevallo

Montevallo is made up of 4 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 49; the middle half of residents live where it is between 9 and 95.

Map of Montevallo, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the key's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5065.9%
  • 50–10015.7%
  • 100–20018.4%
  • 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.

When it happens

Highest in the daytime

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

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm58
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am52
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm58
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am54
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%-8.8%AL -12.4%
Persons crimes-11.4%AL -5.4%+5.4%AL -0.5%
Property crimes-7.2%AL -8.9%-11.1%AL -15.2%
Social disorder-7.7%AL -5.4%-5.3%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

Montevallo against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents

1,236 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Montevallo; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:

Montevallo, AL5,63056
Exeter, PA5,62427

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

Nearby places

Montevallo 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, Calera (6 mi), is about Montevallo's rate.

McCalla17 mi70
Montevallo56
Calera6 mi53
Pelham13 mi52
Columbiana15 mi51
Hoover19 mi49
Alabaster8 mi40
Helena12 mi25

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

Questions about crime in Montevallo

What are the most common crimes in Montevallo?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 28 a year), shoplifting (about 7 a year) and aggravated assault (about 6 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 4.8 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. Montevallo's figures add up its 4 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Montevallo 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: 5,630. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100