Crime in Rainsville, Alabama
Major crime in Rainsville is 51% below the U.S. rate per resident: 75% lower for persons crimes and 45% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 6.2% 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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Drugs and alcohol and other larceny stand out most, at about 13% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Rainsville 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
Neighborhoods in Rainsville
Rainsville 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 37 and 60.
- 0–5063.0%
- 50–10037.0%
- 100–2000.0%
- 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.
Highest on weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 6.2% 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.
Rainsville against U.S. places with 2,000 to 5,000 residents
1,037 of the 1,761 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Rainsville; the middle of the group is 58. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Rainsville has a lower major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Fort Payne (9 mi), is 46% above Rainsville's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Rainsville
What are the most common crimes in Rainsville?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 28 a year), theft from vehicle (about 3 a year) and aggravated assault (about 3 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 13% 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. Rainsville's figures add up its 4 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Rainsville 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: 4,966. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Rainsville, Alabama." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/al/rainsville
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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